Lot Essay
A similar dish, also with Qianlong seal mark and of the period, and of similar size, was included in the exhibition, Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1992, p. 275, no. 142.
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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A PAIR OF MING-STYLE YELLOW-GROUND BLUE-AND-WHITE DISHES
QIANLONG SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
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A PAIR OF MING-STYLE YELLOW-GROUND BLUE-AND-WHITE DISHES
QIANLONG SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Each with rounded sides, painted in the center with a ribbon-tied lotus bouquet below a band of foliate scroll in the well and a narrow band of classic scroll under a pale green glaze at the rim, repeated in an even more narrow band below a further frieze of foliate scroll on the exterior, all painted in 15th century 'heaped-and-piled' technique and reserved on a lemon-yellow ground
8 3/8 in. (21.2 cm.) diam. (2)
QIANLONG SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Each with rounded sides, painted in the center with a ribbon-tied lotus bouquet below a band of foliate scroll in the well and a narrow band of classic scroll under a pale green glaze at the rim, repeated in an even more narrow band below a further frieze of foliate scroll on the exterior, all painted in 15th century 'heaped-and-piled' technique and reserved on a lemon-yellow ground
8 3/8 in. (21.2 cm.) diam. (2)