A large and impressive Chinese Blue and White Phoenix Dish Kangxi Period 1662-1722
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Rising from a tapering foot to an everted rim. With a central phoenix being encircled by a further eight phoenix. The reverse with a further four phoenix. Double ring with artemisia leaf mark. 33.2cm diam. Reference: A dish of this design is illustrated in Leaping the dragon gate, The Sir Michael Butler collection of seventeenth century Chinese Porcelain. Page 456 Plate III.4.125.



