A DOUCAI 'ANBAXIAN' OGEE DISH

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A DOUCAI 'ANBAXIAN' OGEE DISH
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The central medallion decorated with a flower-head surrounded by four peaches interspersed with stylised lotus scrolls, the rounded flaring rim with the Eight Daoist Emblems, anbaxian, each tied to flower sprays with long fluttering ribbons, the exterior with various stylized blooms borne on foliate scrolls above a ruyi band to the foot
8 in. (20.4 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

Qianlong dishes of this pattern are in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in the Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics, vol. 2, Tokyo, 1990, pl. 593; in the Umezawa Kinenkan Museum, Tokyo, illustrated in Toji Takei, vol. 46, Tokyo, 1973, pl. 28; a single dish of this shape and design was included in the exhibition Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, 1977, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 83; and another was included in the exhibition, Qing Imperial Porcelain, Nanjing Museum and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 106.

Several similar dishes have previously been sold at auction, including a pair of dishes sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 1 Dec 2009, lot 1926.

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