A GOOD BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER KANGXI SIX CHARACTER MARK AND ...

Hammer

£4,400

A GOOD BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER
KANGXI SIX CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
康熙青花‘瑞獸’紋盤
the saucer dish with its slightly everted rim is decorated in graded washes of  under glaze cobalt blue.  The decoration on this dish depicts a Buddhist lion in a sketchy landscape - thus establishing it as the main centre of focus. The lion is painted with a coiffure of neat curls around the head and a bushy tail. It has paws not hooves and as such is distinguished from the qilin. The Eight Buddhist Symbols also form part of the central decoration along with the underside of the dish. The base has a Kangxi reign mark within a double circle. 
27cm diam.

PROVENANCE: Acquired from Chorley’s Auctioneers, Gloucestershire, June 2009.

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Consolidated hairline from the rim at the 2 o’clock position approximately 4 cm.