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Description
A Chinese porcelain blue and white imperial bowl, wan, painted with two five-clawed dragons divided by a large branch of lingzhi fungus supporting a ruyi-head shaped shou and fu characters, amongst stylised flames and clouds and above a band of overlapping petals all between double rings, painted in the well of the interior with a similar dragon medallion.
5 ¼ inches, 13.2 cm diameter.
The base with a six-character mark of Kangxi within a double ring and of the period, circa 1710.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Formerly in the collection of Bertil J. Högström, Stockholm, Sweden, collection no. 29.
- Purchased from Hugh Moss Ltd., 24th April 1975.
- Sold by Marchant, 2nd May 2012 (stock no. S2273).
- From a private English collection.
- An identical bowl in the Gugong Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, is illustrated by Chen Ren Min inQing Dynasty Shunzhi Period and Kangxi Period Underglaze Blue, no. 121, p. 200, another identical bowl is illustrated by Wang Qingzheng in Kangxi Porcelain Wares From the Shanghai Museum Collection, no. 18, pp. 26/7.
- Included by Marchant in their exhibition of The Bertil J. Högström Collection, Kangxi Blue and White Porcelain, 2011, no.49, pp.90/1.
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