A YELLOW-GLAZED BLUE-GROUND SAUCER DISH

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A YELLOW-GLAZED BLUE-GROUND SAUCER DISH
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

The interior decorated with a central medallion of a dragon leaping amidst clouds and flames in pursuit of a flaming pearl, encircled by a single-line border and a similar frieze in the well which is repeated on the exterior above a band of petal lappets, all reserved in yellow on an underglaze-blue, wash ground, rim ground--9 7/8in. (25cm.) diam.

Exhibited

Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Born of Earth and Fire, Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, September 9-November 8, 1992, no. 90

Lot Essay

Other Qianlong dishes of this pattern are in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, included in the Special Exhibition of Dragon-Motif Porcelain, 1983, Catalogue no. 76; in the Jaehne Collection, included in the exhibition, Chinese Art from the Newark Museum, China Institute, New York, 1980, Catalogue, no. 41; in the Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics, 1965, Catalogue, no. 202; and in the Yokogawa Collection, now in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in Old Oriental Ceramics, 1953, no. 336