A VERY FINE FAMILLE VERTE 'DRAGON' DISH

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A VERY FINE FAMILLE VERTE 'DRAGON' DISH
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Painted to the centre with an ascending five-clawed green dragon chasing a flaming pearl amidst fire and cloud-scrolls within double-line borders, with five further dragons painted in underglaze-blue in mutual pursuit of flaming pearls below the gilt rim, the exterior enamelled with four stylized phoenix divided by cloud-scrolls
8 7/8 in. (20.3 cm.) diam., box

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, 1995, pl. 126.

Lot Essay

Previously sold in these Rooms, 17 January 1989, lot 673.

A similar dish from the Captain C. Oswald Liddell Collection is illustrated by du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, no. 12, p. 243, and sold in our London Rooms, 25 November 1974, lot 204, and again in these Rooms, 30 October 1995, lot 725.

Cf. another example in the Victoria and Albert Museum, no. C.45-1928.

(US$13,000-20,000)

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