AN IMPORTANT BLACK-GROUND GREEN-GLAZED DISH, reserved on a rich blackground washed over in translucent pale apple-green glaze with two birds and butterflies on rockwork flanked by hibiscus and chrysanthemum, surrounded by the eight Buddhist emblems, bajixiang, on a lotus meander, the reverse with a lotus meander and interlocking key-pattern under the rim,

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AN IMPORTANT BLACK-GROUND GREEN-GLAZED DISH, reserved on a rich blackground washed over in translucent pale apple-green glaze with two birds and butterflies on rockwork flanked by hibiscus and chrysanthemum, surrounded by the eight Buddhist emblems, bajixiang, on a lotus meander, the reverse with a lotus meander and interlocking key-pattern under the rim,

Qianlong seal mark and of the period
48cm. diam.

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A Qianlog-marked ogee bowl of this rare pattern and decoration sold in these Great Rooms, 11 June 1990, lot 269; and a pear-shaped vase of the same period was sold in our Rooms in Hong Kong, 1 May 1995, lot 660.

Other wares in this rare palette are published. Cf. a Yongzheng-marked saucer dish and a globular bottle vase, in the Baur Collection, Geneva, illustrated by Ayers in the Catalogue, vol.IV. no.A568-69. A Yongzheng-marked baluster vase decorated with longyan, narcissus and lingzhi was sold in our Rooms in Hong Kong, 26 September 1989, lot 630

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