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

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A FINE SMALL CELADON-GLAZED DISH
UNDERGLAZE BLUE QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)
With a broad flat base and shallow tapering straight sides rising from a slightly splayed foot, the interior moulded with three bats surrounding ribboned gourd, berries and lingzhi, amongst cloud scrolls, the reverse with radiating leaves, all covered in a pale celadon glaze
4 3/8 in. (11 cm.) diam.

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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 Jaher Chinesische Keramik Aus Privatbesitz, Hamburg, 1974, no. 221. A pair of similar dishes from the E. T. Hall Collection was sold in these Rooms, 7 June 2004, lot 246.

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