Chinese Blue and White Glazed Porcelain Dish, Kangxi Period
The center painted with a scholar and servant resting beneath trees at a riverside, within a rim decorated with lotus petal lappets with floral designs, base marked with an auspicious symbol. Diameter 10 1/2 inches. One small shallow chip to underside of rim. Estimate $1,500-2,500
Provenance: E&J Frankel, New York
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Chinese Blue and White Glazed Porcelain Dish, Kangxi Period. Photo courtesy Doyle New York
With shallow rounded sides and a short foot, the exterior painted with floral sprays, interior painted with opposing phoenix among flowering lotus branches issuing from rockwork, base with six-character Chenghua mark. Diameter 5 3/4 inches. scattered pinholes and iron spots. Estimate $1,000-1,500
Provenance: E&J Frankel, New York
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Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Kraak Style Charger, Kangxi Period. Photo courtesy Doyle New York
Of shallow form, the scalloped edge and exterior painted with floral sprays, interior base with floral sprays issuing from rockwork surrounded by radiating lappets enclosing floral motifs, base with six-character Chenghua mark. Diameter 11 inches. Restoration to rim edge on one side. Rim with further small areas of glaze wear. Estimate $1,000-1,500
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Chinese Blue and White Glazed Porcelain Dish, Kangxi Period. Photo courtesy Doyle New York
With scalloped edges, the exterior with slightly raised panels, the interior with a central medallion painted with two ladies in a garden enclosing by a recessed petal banding within a diaper ground, base with four-character mark. Diameter 4 1/2 inches. Rim frits, scattered pinholes underglaze. Estimate $800-1,200
Provenance: Dongan Antiques, Bronxville, New York
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Chinese Blue and White Glazed Porcelain Deep Dish, Kangxi Period. Photo courtesy Doyle New York
The central scene of a fisherman in a boat on a lake in a mountain landscape surrounded by alternating landscape and floral panels on the shaped rim, base with a lotus mark in double blue circle. Diameter 8 1/2 inches. Shallow chip to rim and single hairline extending from rim 1 inch. Estimate $400-600
Provenance: Parke Bernet Gallery, New York
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Doyle New York. Asian Works of Art. Monday, September 16, 2013 at 10am - http://www.doylenewyork.com