Lot 7: A RARE MOLDED BLUE AND WHITE 'XIXIANG JI' FOLIATE SAUCER DISH Chenghua mark, Kangxi

A RARE MOLDED BLUE AND WHITE
'XIXIANG JI' FOLIATE SAUCER DISH

Chenghua mark, Kangxi

Finely potted and elegantly conceived, painted to the interior center within a molded rounded-eight-pronged panel with Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying at a pavilion entrance on a garden terrace with a
taihu rock nearby, the cavetto molded with lotus petals and painted with eight ribboned Daoist objects alternating with flower sprays below further molded lotus petals painted with a cell pattern to the rim, the exterior identically molded and painted with further ribboned objects and flower sprays above the short tapering foot and with the 'eight trigrams' dividing flowerhead cells at the molded petal rim, an encircled
Chenghua six-character mark to the base.


8 3/4in (22.2cm) diam

Generally, in excellent overall condition. A few minute air-bubble pinpricks and insignificant glaze pulls to the surface but unobtrusive. Highly recommended.

清康熙 青花西廂記故事圖盤

青花「大明成化年製」雙圈楷書款



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



A related Kangxi period blue and white dish also with a scene from
Xixiangji (
Romance of the Western Chamber) and bearing a
Chenghua mark is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the Salting Bequest (acc. no. C.727-1910).

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