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A large scalloped-edge dish “The Eight Horses of Mu Wang”
Estimate
3.000 - 5.000
Session 2
27 October 2026
Description
Chinese porcelain
Decorated in Famille Verte enamels depicting “The Eight Horses of Mu Wang”, with a groom and horses set in a landscape with rocks and a willow tree
Border decorated with medallions depicting cranes, on an iron-red ground with floral motifs
Reverse decorated with peony branches, bearing the incised Johanneum inventory mark “N:7” and an artemisia leaf mark in underglaze blue
Kangxi period (1662-1722)
(restored chips)
Diam.: 37 cm
Additional Information
The Johanneum inventory mark is associated with the former porcelain collection of Augustus II the Strong (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, assembled at the Japanese Palace in Dresden.
Provenance:
Collection of the Hon. Mrs Nellie Ionides, inv. no. 840
Christie’s, London, Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Including Export Art,
17 June 2003, lote 167
Exhibitions:
A Tale of Three Cities: Canton, Shanghai and Hong Kong, Sotheby’s, London, 1997, no. 100
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