A blue-ground yellow-enamelled 'dragon' dish, Mark and period of Kangxi | 清康熙 藍地黃彩雲龍紋盤 《大清康熙年製》款
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September 9, 11:30 AM GMT
Estimate
700,000 - 900,000 HKD
Lot Details
Description
with rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to an everted rim, the interior decorated in yellow enamel with a central medallion enclosing a ferocious dragon reaching for a 'flaming pearl' amidst flames and ruyi clouds, surrounded by two dragons striding sinuously at the cavetto, the reverse similarly painted with two dragons in pursuit of 'flaming pearls' above upright lappets skirting the foot, all reserved against an underglaze-blue ground, the base left white and inscribed with a six-character reign mark within a double circle, Japanese wood box
25.1 cm
Marchant, London, acquired in 1992.
Collection of Sir Joseph Hotung Family Trust.
Marchant, London, acquired in 2002.
Christie’s New York, 22nd March 2007, lot 330.
Jie Rui Tang Collection.
Sotheby's New York, 20th March 2018, lot 319.
Gallery Shingendo, Tokyo.
Hirano Kotoken.
Qing Mark and Period Monochrome and Two-Coloured Wares, Marchant, London, 1992, cat. no. 3.
Enchanting Classic Chinese Culture, Kangxi Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 2014, cat. no. 1.
Jeffrey P. Stamen and Cynthia Volk with Yibin Ni, A Culture Revealed: Kangxi-era Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, Bruges, 2017, pl. 20.
The present dish is a superlative example of type. The compelling contrast achieved between the luminous, evenly applied marigold-yellow enamel against the deftly applied layers of vivid sapphire-blue tones attests to the ability of the imperial kilns to satisfy the exacting expectations of the Imperial Household which extended to the present yellow on blue ground pattern ware assigned to concubines of the 4th rank. A related example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is included in Qingdai Yuyao Ciqi, vol. 1, pt. I, Beijing, 2005, pl. 36; a pair of dishes is published in the Illustrated Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum. Chinese Ceramics, vol. II, Tokyo, 1990, pl. 579; and another is illustrated in Mayuyama: Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 1047. See also a dish sold in our London rooms, 6th December 1994, lot 222; another in our New York rooms, 15th September 2010, lot 244 and two sold in these rooms, the first, 11th April, 2008, lot 2917; and the second, 8th April 2011, lot 3138.
來源
馬錢特，倫敦，購於1992年
何鴻卿爵士家族承產收藏
馬錢特，倫敦，購於2002年
紐約佳士得2007年3月22日，編號330
潔蕊堂收藏
紐約蘇富比2018年3月20日，編號319
眞玄堂，東京
平野古陶軒
展覽
《Qing Mark and Period Monochrome and Two-Coloured Wares》，馬錢特，倫敦，1992年，編號3
《抱古融今：潔蕊堂藏康熙瓷器展》，蘇富比，紐約，2014年，編號1
出版
Jeffrey P. Stamen，Cynthia Volk 及倪亦斌，《文采卓然：潔蕊堂藏康熙盛世瓷》，布呂赫，2017年，圖版20
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