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

Yellow-ground aubergine porcelain is extremely rare and no other example appears to have been published to date. The current dish might be fashioned after a Kangxi-marked yellow-ground aubergine bowl decorated with dragons from the Beijing Palace Museum, which in its own right was also an extremely rare example bearing this unusual colour combination, illustrated in Selected Porcelain of the Flourishing Qing Dynasty at the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1994, pl. 76.