QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

This dish is decorated with a frontal dragon on the interior fashioned after Ming prototypes. A Jiajing-marked blue and white dish with a similar design of dragons is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (II), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2000, p. 125, pl. 115.