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

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AN IRON-RED-ENAMELED BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' DISH
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The dish is decorated on the interior with an iron-red five-clawed dragon writhing amidst underglaze blue waves, the exterior with a continuous band of nine smaller dragons on a wave ground below a stylized flowerhead border at the rim.
7 in. (17.7 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Bonhams London, 13 May 2010, lot 261 (part).

Special notice

Please note that this lot is subject to an import tariff. The amount of the import tariff due is a percentage of the final hammer price plus buyer's premium. The buyer should contact Post Sale Services prior to the sale to determine the estimated amount of the import tariff. If the buyer instructs Christie's to arrange shipping of the lot to a foreign address the buyer will not be required to pay the import tariff, but the shipment may be delayed while awaiting approval to export from the local government. If the buyer instructs Christie's to arrange shipping of the lot to a domestic address, if the buyer collects the property in person, or if the buyer arranges their own shipping (whether domestically or internationally), the buyer will be required to pay the import tariff. For the purpose of calculating sales tax, if applicable, the import tariff will be added to the final hammer price plus buyer's premium and sales tax will be collected as per The Buyer's Premium and Taxes section of the Conditions of Sale.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

A similar Qianlong-marked dish is illustrated by G. M. Greenwald in The Greenwald Collection, Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics, 1996, p. 57, and was subsequently sold at Christie’s New York, 24-25 March 2011, lot 1784. Another example was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 31 May 2010, lot 2056.

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