A famille verte 'landscape' dish and a famille verte 'phoenix' dish


Kangxi six-character mark and of the period and Chenghua six-character mark, KangxiThe first painted with a retreat in a mountainous river landscape; the second enamelled to the well with two swooping phoenix amongst flowering peony, the reverse similarly decorated. 21cm (8.1/4in) and 21.5cm (8.1/2in) diam. (2).
|See a similar famille verte 'phoenix' dish, also with the apocryphal Chenghua mark and dated Kangxi, illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, 1998, pl. 99. See another comparable 'phoenix' dish, Kangxi, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 October 2001, lot 789.