A LARGE CELADON-GLAZED 'DRAGON' CHARGER

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A LARGE CELADON-GLAZED 'DRAGON' CHARGER
YONGZHENG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The centre moulded in shallow relief with a chilong leaping amid cloud scrolls, the exterior decorated with overlapping lotus petals below a flat everted rim, applied overall with an even sea-green glaze thinning to a paler tone on the highlights of the decoration, the footrim dressed with a dark brown slip (small glaze flake to rim)
16 1/2 in. (42 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

An identical dish from the Jingguantang Collection, sold in these Rooms, 3 November 1996, lot 569.

For other similar Yongzheng examples of this pattern, cf. a dish from the Freer Gallery of Art, illustrated by Beurdeley and Raindre, Qing Porcelain, pl. 231; one from the Soames Collection included in the O.C.S. Exhibition of Celadon Wares, London, 1947, Catalogue, no. 131; one from the T. Y. Chao Collection, exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1978, Catalogue, no. 46; and another from the H. M. Knight Collection, sold in Hong Kong, 20 May 1980, lot 79.

An element of archaistic interest is evident in the present dish in that the glaze resembles pale celadon Longquan glazes of the twelfth-thirteenth centuries. It is known that reproduction of Longquan glazes was indeed on Tang Ying's List of Porcelains Supplied to the Court in 1729.

(US$16,000-24,000)

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