Two famille verte enameled porcelain deep dishes with flower and bird decoration
Kangxi period
Each molded with a flared rim to the wide curving well and raised on a wedged foot pad: one dish displaying a red and green bodied bird facing to the right on a persimmon branch intertwined with prunus and bamboo with further bamboo stalks painted in iron red monochrome to the exterior walls; the second dish displaying a tiny butterfly and black and green-bodied bird facing to the left on a flowering branch reversed by bamboo stalks painted in black outline and green enamel.
diameter 8 1/4in (21cm)
Each molded with a flared rim to the wide curving well and raised on a wedged foot pad: one dish displaying a red and green bodied bird facing to the right on a persimmon branch intertwined with prunus and bamboo with further bamboo stalks painted in iron red monochrome to the exterior walls; the second dish displaying a tiny butterfly and black and green-bodied bird facing to the left on a flowering branch reversed by bamboo stalks painted in black outline and green enamel.
diameter 8 1/4in (21cm)
Sold for
US$ 15,000
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
Bearing oval paper labels printed 'Ralph M. Chait Galleries, NY.'
Lot heading
Property from the Estate of Gloria Lowengart, San Francisco
Category: Furniture / European Furniture and Works of Art
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