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each finely and delicately potted of shallow circular form supported on a short foot ring, the interior and underside covered in an exquisite pale green glaze, the white-glazed base inscribed with the reign mark in underglaze blue within a double circle

倫敦佳士得1997年6月9日，編號140

In overall good condition. The catalogue illustration with a greyish tone.
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This pair of dishes, covered overall with a cool celadon glaze, display the technical advances achieved at the newly re-established Imperial kilns at Jingdezhen under the Kangxi reign. Celadon wares began to be produced in small quantities in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) at Jingdezhen. The translucent green tone of this glaze, however, was a Kangxi innovation achieved by perfecting the preparation, application, firing and cooling of the glaze applied on a fine white porcelain body.

Celadon-glazed dishes of this form are rare, although a smaller dish with everted rim was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 20th March 1990, lot 753; and a slightly larger dish incised with a dragon, was sold at Christie’s New York, 24th March 2011, lot 1737. Compare also a celadon-glazed dish modelled with straight sides and wide foot rim, in the Nanjing Museum, included in the exhibition The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, cat. no. 111. Dishes of this form are also known covered with various monochrome glazes; see for example a white-glazed dish, moulded with a pair of fishes, in the Baur collection, illustrated in Ceramic Art of the World. Ch’ing Dynasty, vol. 15, Tokyo, 1983, pl. 35; and two larger yellow-glazed dishes incised with dragons, one published in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, pl. 239; and the other in the Nanjing Museum, included in Imperial Kiln Porcelain of Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 1999, pl. 8.