A pair of large famille verte 'Qilin and Phoenix' dishes


KangxiEach vividly and brightly enamelled with a mythical qilin confronting a phoenix in flight amidst cloud scrolls in a setting of rockwork, peony and pine, encircled by eight cartouches decorated with four various beasts alternating with floral sprays, the everted foliate rims with shaped panels containing butterflies on a diaper-pattern ground.Each 37cm (14 1/2in) diam. (2).
|清康熙 五彩瑞獸圖花口折沿大盤 一對Provenance: Sotheby's London, 19-21 September 2006, lot 712.An English private collection來源： 2006年9月19至21日於倫敦蘇富比拍賣，拍品712號英國私人收藏A related dish with qilin and phoenix, Kangxi, is illustrated by C.J.A.Jorg, Famille Verte: Chinese Porcelain in Green Enamels, Amsetrdam, 2011, pp.46.