AN IRON-RED AND GILT 'IMMORTALS' ANHUA DISH QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD |

finely painted, the interior enclosing a central medallion depicting Shoulao seated under the stars reading a scroll in a rocky celestial landscape accompanied by a deer and an attendant, the cavetto deftly incised with two scaly dragons pursuing 'Flaming Pearls', the exterior with the Eight Immortals amid the cresting waves of a turbulent sea, each poised atop an array of fanciful conveyances, the attributes and other details picked out in famille-verte enamels and gilt, coll. no. 480.

Christie's London, 19th June 2001, lot 93.
Berwald Oriental Art, London.

Jeffrey P. Stamen and Cynthia Volk with Yibin Ni, A Culture Revealed: Kangxi-era Chinese Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, Bruges, 2017, pl. 79.

There has been restoration to scattered tiny frits and minute shallow chips along the edge of the rim.
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Most likely produced around the time of the Kangxi emperor's sixtieth birthday (1713), the present dish belongs to group that often bear an imperial reign mark. A nearly identical dish bearing a six-character Kangxi mark in underglaze blue on the base from the Zhuyue Tang Collection is published in Peter Y. K. Lam, 'Myriad Longevity without Borders: Some Wing Imperial Birthday Ceramics from Hong Kong Collections', Arts of Asia, vol. 40, no. 5, September - October 2010, pl. 3. Another dish from the Tsui Museum of Art, also with a Kangxi reign mark, is illustrated in the Exhibition of Art Treasures from Shanghai and Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1996, cat. no. 52.