A GREEN-ENAMELED 'DRAGON' DISH KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD
the rounded sides set over a slightly tapered foot and rising to a gently everted rim, the interior centered with an emerald-green-enameled five-claw dragon writhing in pursuit of a 'flaming pearl', flame scrolls emanating from the powerful body, all surrounded by a green-enameled ring at the cavetto and another at the rim, the motif repeated on the exterior with two dragons striding across a ground of incised waves, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle
Diameter 7 in., 17.8 cm
Provenance:
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
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the rounded sides set over a slightly tapered foot and rising to a gently everted rim, the interior centered with an emerald-green-enameled five-claw dragon writhing in pursuit of a 'flaming pearl', flame scrolls emanating from the powerful body, all surrounded by a green-enameled ring at the cavetto and another at the rim, the motif repeated on the exterior with two dragons striding across a ground of incised waves, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle
Diameter 7 in., 17.8 cm
Provenance:
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
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