UNDERGLAZE-BLUE QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)

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A PAIR OF SMALL PALE CELADON-GLAZED DISHES
UNDERGLAZE-BLUE QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)
Each with a broad flat base and shallow tapering straight sides rising from a slightly splayed foot, the interior moulded with three bats variously suspending ribboned fruit including a double gourd and berries among cloud scrolls, the reverse with radiating ruyi-shaped and straight leaves, all covered in a pale celadon glaze
4 3/8 in. (11.2 cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

E. T. Hall Collection, nos. 393 and 394

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Lot Essay

A similar dish is illustrated by Ireneus Legeza in The Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1972, pl. 106, no. 283. Another was included in the exhibition, Tausend Jahre Chinesische Keramik aus Privatbesitz, Hamburg, 1974, no. 221. A dish of this pattern but with a Yongzheng mark from the E.T. Hall Collection, was included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition, Iron in the Fire, 1988, no. 87.

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