JIAQING SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

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AN AUBERGINE AND GREEN-ENAMELLED 'DRAGON' BOWL
JIAQING SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
The bowl has deep, rounded sides rising to a slightly flared rim, and is incised on the exterior with two dragons pursuing flaming pearls amidst flames and two cruciform clouds above rocks and waves, all under a dark aubergine enamel reserved on a green ground.
4½ in. (11.4 cm.) diam.

Provenance

S. Marchant & Son, London, before 1995.

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Lot Essay

Compare a similar bowl, also with Jiaqing seal mark, included in the exhibition, Qing Mark and Period Monochrome and Two-Coloured Wares, S. Marchant & Son, London, 7-26 June 1992, no. 51. Two other similar bowls are illustrated by G. Lang in The Powell-Cotton Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Birchington, Kent, 1987, nos. 109 and 110. Also see a fine example sold in these rooms, 24 March 2004, lot 223.

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