A PAIR OF GREEN AND AUBERGINE-ENAMELED YELLOW-GROUND 'DRAGON' DISHES KANGXI MARKS AND PERIOD
delicately potted, each with rounded sides rising from a short foot, incised to the center with two confronting dragons contesting a 'flaming pearl' amid fiery cloud scrolls, the exterior with four double clusters of grapes, the base with a six-character mark in aubergine enamel within a double circle (2)
Diameter 5 1/4 in., 13.2 cm
Provenance:
Collection of Henri Mazot (1882-1956), acquired in Beijing in the 1920s.
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delicately potted, each with rounded sides rising from a short foot, incised to the center with two confronting dragons contesting a 'flaming pearl' amid fiery cloud scrolls, the exterior with four double clusters of grapes, the base with a six-character mark in aubergine enamel within a double circle (2)
Diameter 5 1/4 in., 13.2 cm
Provenance:
Collection of Henri Mazot (1882-1956), acquired in Beijing in the 1920s.
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