PAIRE D'ASSIETTES EN PORCELAINE MONOCHROME AUBERGINEMarques et époque Kangxi (1662-1722)A PAIR OF INCISED AUBERGINE-GLAZED ANHUA-DECORATED 'DRAGON' DISHESKangxi six-character marks and of the periodEach with rounded sides rising to a gently flared rim, finely incised to centre with a striding dragon in pursuit of the flaming pearl, the exteriors similarly decorated with two sinuous dragons chasing the flaming pearl, covered overall with a rich lustrous purple glaze stopping in a neat line around the foot and pooling to a deeper tone in the incised areas.Each 25.2cm (9 7/8in) diam. (2).Provenance: 清康熙 茄皮紫釉暗刻龍紋對盤　青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款Provenance:Collection of Count Thierry de Ganay (1946-2015), ParisChristie's Paris, 4 November 2015, lot 326來源:亨利德加奈伯爵(1946-2015)舊藏, 巴黎巴黎佳士得，2015年11月4日，編號326Several examples of this type are known in museum and private collections,pare, for instance, a dish in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated inKangxi Porcelains from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, pl.224, and another example from the Koger Collection, published inChinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection, Sarasota, 1985, no.172, where it is suggested that this vibrant purple glaze was an innovation of the late Kangxi period, and that the Koger example was 'part of an Imperial dragon service continuing a style instituted under the Ming dynasty',ibid., p.172.pare also with a similar example illustrated in Christiaan J.A.Jörg,Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The Ming and Qing Dynasties, Amsterdam, 1997, p.231, pl.261.