A SMALL GREEN-GLAZED SCALLOP-RIMMED DISH

Details

A SMALL GREEN-GLAZED SCALLOP-RIMMED DISH
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

Incised in the center of the interior with a dragon leaping amidst flower sprigs in pursuit of a flaming pearl, the motif repeated in the well and on the exterior, with a black double-line border encircling the central medallion and outlining the scalloped rim inside and out, all under a glaze of leaf-green tone
5¼in. (13.3cm.) diam.

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Chinese Art, Chinese Ceramics IV, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 42 (one of a pair)

Lot Essay

For another dish of this unusual type, also with a Qianlong mark, see the example included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition, Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong Museum of Art, June 9-August 2, 1992, p. 354, Catalogue, no. 221. Dishes of this shape and with this decoration are more usually decorated in green on a yellow ground, such as the example from the T.Y. Chao Collection included in an exhibition at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1973, Catalogue, no. 41, which rather than dragons on the reverse has floral sprigs