RARE PAIRE D'ASSIETTES EN PORCELAINE WUCAIÉpoque Kangxi（1662-1722）A RARE PAIR OF WUCAI 'CARP' DISHESKangxi (1662-1722)Each painted to the centre with two carp in iron-red, one swimming and the second vigorously leaping from the water, with scattered lotus and arrow-weed, picked out in green, yellow enamels and iron-red and underglaze-blue, the well decorated with six additional leaping carp, all depicted in iron-red, amid aquatic weed and floating blossoms, the exterior similarly decorated.Each 20.6cm (8 1/4in) diam. (2).Provenance: 清康熙 五彩蓮池魚藻紋對盤Dishes decorated with this design are moremonly inscribed with the four character markZai chuan Zhi le (Rejoicing in the stream) which refers to the design of carp leaping in a pond. Examples are in several museum collections including one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated inTheplete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Vol.38, Hong Kong, 1999, p.146, no.134.pare also a dish with this design in the Percival David Foundation, London, illustrated inMing and Ming Style Polychrome Wares, London, 2006, p.61, no.A797. A pair of wucai 'carp' dishes from the Jingguantang Collection withZai chuan Zhi le marks were sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 5 November 1997, lot 875; a second pair were sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 11 April 2008, lot 2966.