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PAIR OF POWDER-BLUE, GILT AND FAMILLE VERTE CHARGERS
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CATALOGUE NUMBERS 1323 & 1324

PAIR OF POWDER-BLUE, GILT AND FAMILLE VERTE CHARGERS

KANGXI PERIOD (1661-1722)

DIMENSIONS

Diameter: 15 ¾ inches

PROVENANCE
  • Christie's New York, January 24, 2005, lot 43

  • Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 1984

CATALOGUE NOTES

Pair of dishes in powder blue and gilt with famille verte reserves. The dishes, similarly decorated, depict a central domestic scene of a seated gentleman playing the qin while his wife gestures to a servant girl bearing a tray to attend to her master. The reverse of each is decorated with double concentric circles containing a Buddhist symbol. 

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