AN IRON-RED-DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER DISH

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AN IRON-RED-DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER DISH
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

The interior decorated with an iron-red dragon leaping against a background of finely penciled waves within a double-line border repeated at the rim, with a similar frieze of nine further dragons on the exterior below a narrow border of linked cash motifs--6 7/8in. (17.9cm.) 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. 89

Lot Essay

Dishes of this date and design have been included in the O.C.S. exhibition, The Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, London, 1964, Catalogue, no. 235; in the exhibition, Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Hong Kong, 1973, Catalogue, no. 70; and one was sold Christie's Swire, Hong Kong, March 20, 1990, lot 704