Three Chinese lobed blue and white dishes with a bird among blossoming branches, Kangxi

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Three Chinese lobed blue and white dishes with a bird among blossoming branches, Kangxi Dia.: 38 cm The dishes of round form with a foliate rim, decorated in shades of underglaze blue, the centre painted with a design of a bird strutting along a leafy spring, set among two large blooms of flowering chrysanthemum issuing from the rockwork below. The well lightly moulded and decorated with petal-like panales, each containing a type of flowers, the wide outer rim decorated with a continuous motof of large peony blooms and scrolling tendrils. The reverse painted with four flowering branches. The base painted in underglaze blue with a beribboned lozenge in the centre encircled by a double blue ring. The beribboned lozenge mark is an auspicious Chinese porcelain symbol representing victory, success, and prosperity. It belongs to the Eight Precious Objects (Babao) and appears frequently as a base mark or decorative motif. Ref.: - For an almost identical example, see: Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, vol. 111, p. 1039, pl. 2264.

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