A DOUCAI 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' DISH KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD

well potted with wide rounded sides rising from a slightly tapered foot, brightly painted on the interior with a large green-enameled five-clawed dragon writhing among clouds beside a 'flaming pearl', all saturated in vivid colors within a double-line border and below a single line at the rim, the exterior similarly decorated with an underglaze blue five-clawed dragon striding in pursuit of a 'flaming pearl' behind a serrated-tailed phoenix among clouds, all above green crested waves and between a double-line borders encircling the foot and rim, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character mark within a double circle
Diameter 8 5/8 in., 21.8 cm

Provenance:
Chang Collection (according to label).
Marshall Field & Company, Chicago.
Collection of Hoyt Augustus Moore (1870-1958), and thence by descent.