A celadon-glazed 'lotus' dish, Mark and period of Kangxi

Roger Keverne, London.

Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and Ceramics. Winter Exhibition, Roger Keverne, London, 2011, cat. no. 32.

With its shallow rounded sides and radiating rows of petals carved into the exterior, this celadon-glazed dish is a rare Kangxi-period (1662-1722) imperial reinterpretation of a classic Song dynasty design produced at the Longquan kilns. Compare a Longquan dish of similar lotus form from the Qing Imperial Collection which may have served as inspiration for the present, illustrated in the Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Tokyo, 1974, pl. 24. Compare another Kangxi mark and period saucer dish of identical design from the collection of Mrs. Galbraith Horn, sold in these rooms, 2nd June 1970, lot 103, and again in our Hong Kong rooms, 20th May 1980, lot 82.

Another related dish, presumably a Longquan prototype but possibly the present Kangxi variation, was preserved in the collection of Kangxi's son, the Yongzheng Emperor (r. 1723-1735), and included in the Guwan tu scroll cataloguing his collection, now in the British Museum, London (accession no. PDF,X.01).