Lot 15: A LARGE VIBRANT BLUE AND WHITE 'PEACOCK' DISH Kangxi

A LARGE VIBRANT BLUE AND WHITE 'PEACOCK' DISH

Kangxi

Meticulously and densely painted in vibrant cobalt tones with a central roundel with two pheasants on rockwork beneath blossoming peony, prunus, and magnolia trees and two smaller birds soaring above, all within a floral band at the cavetto, the wide everted rim with four peacocks roaming across a scrolling floral ground divided by four shaped cartouches alternately enclosing clusters of peaches or pomegranates, the reverse with six equally-spaced beribboned
bajixiang, the base with a flowering prunus branch within a double circle.


15 1/2in (39.4cm) diam

Generally, in good condition overall, save for some fritting and small associated chips to the rim exterior. A few other minor glaze bubble pinpricks but unobtrusive. Recommended.

清康熙 青花錦地開光花鳥圖盤



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York

Purchase by subscription, 1879

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1879-present




來源：

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904)，紐約

會費購藏，1879 年

大都會藝術博物館，1879 年迄今



See three large blue and white 'peacock' chargers (21 3/4in diam) with similar peacock borders but more formalized central roundels sold in our New York rooms, 24 January 2023,
Cohen & Cohen: 50 Years of Chinese Export Porcelain, lot 125, and were also published in Cohen & Cohen,
A Game of Bowls, Ghent, 2014, pp.28-29, no.21.



These elaborate, high-quality chargers are fine examples of pieces that were popular for displays in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, often in special rooms called 'porcelain cabinets'.



While produced at the height of the production of blue and white in the early 18th century, interest in this ware was renewed in the 19th century. One of the most famous displays of such collections was the Peacock Room in the London home of Frederick R. Leland (1831-1892), which was later purchased by Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919) and is now installed at the Freer Gallery, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.



In China, the peacock is a symbol of beauty and dignity, and, in the Qing dynasty, the tail feathers were used to show official rank.

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