A large wucai 'dragon and phoenix' dish, Mark and period of Kangxi | 清康熙 五彩龍鳳呈祥盤 《大清康熙年製》款

A French private collection, Montmorency.

Marchant, London.

法國蒙莫朗西私人收藏

馬錢特，倫敦

An identical dish from the Baron Mitsubishi collection was included in the exhibition Seikadō zō Shinchō tōji. Keitokuchin kanyō no bi [Qing dynasty porcelain collected in the Seikado. Beauty of Jingdezhen imperial kilns], Seikado Bunko Art Museum, Tokyo, 2006, cat. no. 28; another is illustrated in John Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1982, pl. 192, C.99-1967. See also a smaller dish of this pattern included in the exhibition Recent Acquisitions, S. Marchant & Son, London, 2003, pl. 5.

Two large dishes of this type, made perhaps slightly later in the Kangxi reign, are illustrated in Yang Boda, The Tsui Museum of Art. Chinese Ceramics IV. Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 98 and in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 133.