A DOUCAI 'DEER' DISHChenghua six-character mark, Kangxi
The interior attractively painted in dark blue and enamelled in green, iron-red, yellow and aubergine with an auspicious deer standing on a bamboo terrace, a clump of lingzhi at the right side and a smaller right fungus in its mouth, within a wide border of four long blossoms and rockwork clusters. 31cm (12 1/4in) diam.Footnotes清康熙 鬥彩瑞鹿紋盤
青花「大明成化年製」楷書款
Provenance: Kenneth R. Malcolm (1908-1984), London
Alistair Sampson Antiques, London, 15 June 1997
A European private collection
來源：Kenneth R. Malcolm (1908-1984)，倫敦
倫敦古董商Alistair Sampson Antiques，1997年6月15日
歐洲私人收藏
Deer have long been a symbol of longevity, wealth, and grace in traditional Chinese culture, since the character for deer lu (鹿) is a homophone for emoluments lu (祿). Deer are also frequently depicted beside Shoulao, the God of Longevity, and have thus come to represent longevity too.
Compare with a related doucai-decorated dish, Kangxi, displaying a similar design as the present example but with an apocryphal Xuande mark, in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated by Wang Qingzheng, Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, pp.262-263, no.170.
See also a related doucai stag and pine saucer dish, Yongzheng six-character mark and period, which was sold at Bonhams London, 12 May 2016, lot 91.
A DOUCAI 'DEER' DISHChenghua six-character mark, Kangxi
The interior attractively painted in dark blue and enamelled in green, iron-red, yellow and aubergine with an auspicious deer standing on a bamboo terrace, a clump of lingzhi at the right side and a smaller right fungus in its mouth, within a wide border of four long blossoms and rockwork clusters. 31cm (12 1/4in) diam.Footnotes清康熙 鬥彩瑞鹿紋盤
青花「大明成化年製」楷書款
Provenance: Kenneth R. Malcolm (1908-1984), London
Alistair Sampson Antiques, London, 15 June 1997
A European private collection
來源：Kenneth R. Malcolm (1908-1984)，倫敦
倫敦古董商Alistair Sampson Antiques，1997年6月15日
歐洲私人收藏
Deer have long been a symbol of longevity, wealth, and grace in traditional Chinese culture, since the character for deer lu (鹿) is a homophone for emoluments lu (祿). Deer are also frequently depicted beside Shoulao, the God of Longevity, and have thus come to represent longevity too.
Compare with a related doucai-decorated dish, Kangxi, displaying a similar design as the present example but with an apocryphal Xuande mark, in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated by Wang Qingzheng, Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, pp.262-263, no.170.
See also a related doucai stag and pine saucer dish, Yongzheng six-character mark and period, which was sold at Bonhams London, 12 May 2016, lot 91.
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