A RARE AND UNUSUAL COPPER-RED-GLAZED 'SAMPLE' DISH

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795), DATED TO THE 28TH YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1763

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A RARE AND UNUSUAL COPPER-RED-GLAZED 'SAMPLE' DISH
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795), DATED TO THE 28TH YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1763
With shallow sides rising to the slightly everted rim, covered all over in a glaze of deep liver-red tone, the eight-character inscription written in underglaze blue in two vertical lines on the white base
8 in. (20.3 cm.) diam., box

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Lot Essay

This unusual dish appears to be a sample dish for testing various glazes being produced during the Qianlong reign, and incorporates a date corresponding to the 28th year of Qianlong (1763). It is noted in the iscription that the present dish is number '142' in the wu series. A similar eight-character mark appears on a blue and white 'sample' dish dated to the 6th year of the Qianlong reign, in the collection of the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Ch'ing Official and Popular Wares, Taipei, 1991, p. 33.

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