A rare famille-verte 'carp' washer

Kangxi mark and period

清康熙 五彩鯉躍龍門圖洗

《大清康熙年製》款

of circular form with shallow tapered sides resting on a bi-disc shaped foot, the interior vividly painted carp amid turbulent waves and columnar rocks, all enclosed within circular bands, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle

Diameter 5 ? in., 14.9 cm

Private Collection, acquired before the 1980s, and thence by descent. 

來源

私人收藏，購於1980年代之前，此後家族傳承