A FINE AND VERY RARE GREEN, AUBERGINE AND YELLOW-GROUND LARGE DISH

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A FINE AND VERY RARE GREEN, AUBERGINE AND YELLOW-GROUND LARGE DISH
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Finely glazed in green and two tones of aubergine reserved on a yellow ground with a central medallion painted with a large shou character framed by a ruyi-head border and the wufu in flight amid lotus flowers on leafy curled stems and clouds, below the well with the Eight Buddhist Emblems trailing ribbons above lotus flowers, the flat everted lipped rim with a further eight shou characters flanked by pairs of confronted stylized dragons, the reverse painted with three fruiting and flowering peach sprays alternating with pairs of bats, the base white--16 1/8in. (41cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

Another dish of this very rare pattern, also with a Qianlong seal mark in underglaze-blue, is illustrated by Ayers in the Baur Collection Catalogue, vol. IV, no. A545. Compare also the dish sold in New York, 12 December 1989, lot 217.

The decoration in most likely inspired by Kangxi dishes of this size and of similar palette painted with dragons and flower-sprays such as the dish included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, pl. 34; or the example illustrated by Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, no. 197

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