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

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A RARE LARGE IMPERIAL BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' DISH
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
With rounded sides rising to an everted rim, the center of the interior painted with a five-clawed dragon leaping around a shou character amidst flames and clouds, below four further dragons striding amidst clouds in the well and a band of waves on the rim, the exterior with a frieze of cresting waves and rocks above the foot
17 9/16 in. (44.7 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Imperial Oriental Art.

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Lot Essay

A similar Qianlong-marked dish was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 30 April 2000, lot 599. Another is illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Gulexuan Collection, Lunen, 2003, p. 156, no. 123. Another of the same pattern and size, but with a Yongzheng mark, was included in the Exhibition of Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T. Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1978, no. 81; and another dated to the early 18th century was illustrated by Vollmer, Keall and Nagai-Berthong in the exhibition catalogue, Silk Roads-China Ships, Royal Ontario Museum of Art, Toronto, 1983, p. 229.

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