QIANLONG SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER DISHES*
QIANLONG SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Each decorated in the interior with a medallion of the 'The Three Friends of Winter' (prunus, bamboo and pine), and on the exterior with a frieze of boys at play in a garden and a woman in a terrace pavilion
7 in. (17.9 cm.) (2)

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This lot is exempt from Sales Tax. Seller explicitly reserves all trademark and trade name rights and rights of privacy and publicity in the name and image of Doris Duke. No buyer of any property in this sale will acquire any right to use the Doris Duke name or image. Seller further explicitly reserves all copyright rights in designs or other copyrightable works included in the property offered for sale. No buyer of any property in the sale will acquire the rights to reproduce, distribute copies of, or prepare derivative works of such designs or copyrightable works.

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Lot Essay

The design on this dish is inspired by Ming prototypes, such as the Chenghua dish in The National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Special Exhibition of Ch'eng-hua Porcelain, Taipei, 1976, no. 15.

Similar Qianlong-marked dishes of this popular theme have been published. See S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1904, pl. XCV; and Gulland, Chinese Porcelain, vol. II, London, 1918, no. 860. Another pair is illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art; Chinese Ceramics IV; Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 79. See, also, the pair sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 28 October 2002, lot 700.

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