A FINE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' DISH

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A FINE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' DISH
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Well painted with cobalt of deep blue tone with a large full-faced five-clawed dragon encircling a shou character in the central medallion, below four five-clawed dragons gambolling amidst scrolling clouds in the well, and a dense ground of breaking waves on the flattened everted rim, the exterior with rockwork and breaking waves
17 3/4 in. (45 cm.) diam., box

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Previously sold in our New York Rooms, 19 September 1996, lot 283.

A dish of the same pattern and size but with a Yongzheng mark was included in the Exhibition of Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T. Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Catalogue, no. 81; and another dated to the early 18th century was included in the exhibition, Silk Roads-China Ships, illustrated by Vollmer, Keall and Nagai-Berthong, Royal Ontario Museum of Art, 1983, Catalogue, p. 229.

(US$64,000-90,000)

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