KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

Details

A RARE PAIR OF ENAMELED 'DRAGON' BOWLS
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Each base is inscribed with an apocryphal Jiajing mark.
Each 4 5⁄16 in. (11 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978) Collection.
Sotheby's New York, 20 March 2019, lot 515.

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Lot Essay

A polychrome-enameled bowl of very similar size (11.1 cm diam.), decorated with grapes and tree shrews and bearing a Jiajing mark, but dated to the Kangxi period, is in the Percival David Collection in the British Museum, and illustrated by M. Medley in Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1978, pl. 152.

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