A BLUE AND WHITE AND IRON-RED DECORATED 'DRAGON' DISH
A BLUE AND WHITE AND IRON-RED DECORATED 'DRAGON' DISH
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A BLUE AND WHITE AND IRON-RED DECORATED 'DRAGON' DISH

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

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A BLUE AND WHITE AND IRON-RED DECORATED 'DRAGON' DISH
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The dish is painted on the interior with an iron-red dragon leaping wildly against a background of penciled blue waves, with a similar design repeated with nine dragons on the exterior below a narrow decorative border.
7 in. (17.7 cm.) diam., box

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Compare to two dishes of this pattern, one illustrated in Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1973, no. 70, the other in The Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1964, no. 235. See, also, the example included in Illustrated Catalogue of Old Oriental Ceramics Donated by Mr. Yokogawa, Tokyo, 1953, no. 363.

A fine example of this type, from the Greenwald Collection, illustrated by G. M. Greenwald, The Greenwald Collection, Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics, 1996, p. 57, was sold at Christie's New York, 24-25 March 2011, lot 1784.

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