A LARGE IMPERIAL BLUE AND WHITE DRAGON DISH

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A LARGE IMPERIAL BLUE AND WHITE DRAGON DISH
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Painted in an intense, deep blue with a large full-faced, five-clawed dragon encircling a shou character in the center below four striding five-clawed dragons amidst cloud scrolls in the well, and a dense ground of breaking waves on the flattened, everted rim, the exterior with rockwork and breaking waves
17 5/8in. (44.8cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A dish of the same pattern and size but, with a Yongzheng mark, was included in the Exhibition of Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Catalogue, no. 81; and another dated to the early 18th century was included in the exhibition, Silk Roads-China Ships, illustrated by Vollmer, Keall and Nagai-Berthong, Royal Ontario Museum of Art, September 10-January 8, 1983, Catlalogue, p. 229