A fine pair of wucai and doucai 'dragon' dishes, Marks and period of Kangxi

My Humble House, Taipei, by 1988.

Hanshe miji / Precious Treasures of My Humble House, My Humble House, Taipei, 1988, cat. no. 5. 

The present pair belongs to a small and distinctive group of Kangxi polychrome dishes decorated using two enameling techniques. The interior is finely painted in the wucai palette with twin dragons in pursuit of a ‘flaming pearl’, while the exterior is elegantly adorned in doucai with alternating cranes and multi-colored cloud scrolls.

For dishes of the same type, see a pair from the Wah Kwong Collection, exhibited in Huaguang caotang zhencang qingdai ciqi / Ch’ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Art Museum, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1973, cat. no. 78; a single dish from the Kwong Yee Che Tong Collection, sold twice in our Hong Kong rooms, 26th October 1993, lot 136 and 1st May 2001, lot 596, and most recently at Christie's Hong Kong, 30th May 2024, lot 2840; and another example from the Robert A. Landau Collection, sold at Christie's New York, 17th May 2017, lot 1210.