A PAIR OF MING-STYLE BLUE AND IRON-RED GROUND SAUCER-DISHES

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A PAIR OF MING-STYLE BLUE AND IRON-RED GROUND SAUCER-DISHES
QIANLONG SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

The centre of each painted with a bouquet of ribbon-tied lotus and water weeds, surrounded by a frieze of composite floral scroll in the well and a band of classic scroll at the rim, repeated below a similar frieze on the exterior and a key-fret border just below the rim, all painted in bright cobalt-blue with simulated 'heaping and piling' reserved on a rich iron-red ground except for the formal borders--4½in. (11.5cm.) diam., box (2)

Lot Essay

Dishes of this pattern reserved on iron-red grounds are extremely rare. More common are those reserved on a lemon-yellow ground. Cf. a larger Qianlong-marked dish of this pattern illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, vol. I, col. pl. 109

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