A BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER DISH QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

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A BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER DISH QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

Decorated on the interior with a medallion of the "Three Friends" and on the exterior with a continuous scene of a woman seated in an interior with children playing in the garden beyond, all within double-line borders, rim frits - 71/8 in. (18.2 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Similar dishes with the same mark are illustrated by Yeo and Martin, Chinese Blue and White Ceramics, pl. 163, no. 300, and Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, pl XCV. A Ming precursor dating to the Chenghua reign included in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Special Exhibition of Ch'eng-hua Porcelain, 1976, is illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 15