Lot 398
398
TWO AUBERGINE, GREEN AND YELLOW-GLAZED SMALL SAUCER DISHES

Details
TWO AUBERGINE, GREEN AND YELLOW-GLAZED SMALL SAUCER DISHES
DAOGUANG SEAL MARKS IN BLACK AND OF THE PERIOD

Each incised and painted with two five-clawed dragons contesting a flaming pearl amidst fire scrolls within a double-line border, with six alternating peach and flower sprays in the well below a single line at the rim, the exterior painted with two three-clawed chilong divided by lingzhi, one with minor air bubbles to surface
4 3/16in. (10.6cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

Compare the similar dish of this size and date included in the exhibition, Qing Mark and Period Monochromes and Enamelled Wares, S Marchant & Son, London, July 12-24, 1981, Catalogue, no. 29; another in the Simon Kwan Collection included in the exhibition, Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, Catalogue, no. 59; and a pair sold in our Hong Kong rooms, May 2, 1994, lot 272