AN INSCRIBED AND DATED BLUE AND WHITE QUATREFOIL DISH

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AN INSCRIBED AND DATED BLUE AND WHITE QUATREFOIL DISH
JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

The dish of elongated form with four lobes, the interior inscribed with an imperial poem dated to the dingsi year of Jiaqing, corresponding to 1797, surrounded by a band of lotus scroll repeated on the cavetto and around the exterior, all raised on four shallow supports
6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm.) wide, box

拍品专文

A dish of this pattern from the Weishaupt Collection, is illustrated by G. Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure, London, 1987, no. 13; and another is illustrated by Van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, The Netherlands, 1977, p. 19, pl. 2, where S. W. Bushell's translation of the poem, which celebrates the virtues and preparation of tea, is reproduced, p. 21. See lot 1465 for a teapot with this same poem, where a translation is also provided in the footnote.