Lot Essay
Compare the similar dish dated early Qianlong period, included in the exhibition, Chinese Painted Enamels, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, June-July 1978, Catalogue, no. 46
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A PAINTED ENAMEL DISH
18TH CENTURY
Finely painted in famille rose on the interior with a cluster of peony, finger citron, chrysanthemum and a dragon carp borne on delicate blossoming branches, from which dangles a string of double cash, all within a wide band at the well of conjoined lotus, peony and archaistic dragons superimposed on a pale aubergine ground enriched with composite floral scroll, the reverse with boldly painted dragons emerging from clouds, surrounding the base with an archaistic dragon roundel
8½in. (21.6cm.) diam.
18TH CENTURY
Finely painted in famille rose on the interior with a cluster of peony, finger citron, chrysanthemum and a dragon carp borne on delicate blossoming branches, from which dangles a string of double cash, all within a wide band at the well of conjoined lotus, peony and archaistic dragons superimposed on a pale aubergine ground enriched with composite floral scroll, the reverse with boldly painted dragons emerging from clouds, surrounding the base with an archaistic dragon roundel
8½in. (21.6cm.) diam.