JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON-RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

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A LARGE FAMILLE ROSE RUBY-GROUND CHARGER
JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON-RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
The center of the shallow dish is decorated with a pink, yellow, blue and pale turquoise faceted 'jewel' repeated as pendants hung from the surrounding lotus scroll, all below a band of pendent leaf tips at the top of the well, and a lotus border at the base of the everted rim, which is pierced with a series of lotus joined by iron-red cords. The lotus and 'jewel' design are repeated around the exterior, and the base is covered in a rich turquoise glaze surrounding the reign mark.
15 ½ in. (39.3 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

A dish of identical design and similar size is in the National Museum of China, illustrated in Studies of the Collections of the National Museum of China, Shanghai, 2007, no. 131. A similar example from the Weishaupt Collection is illustrated by Gunhild Avitabile, Vom Schatz der Drachen (From the Dragon's Treasure), London, 1987, p. 32, no. 21. A number of Jiaqing-marked examples of the same design have been sold at auction: one was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 10 April 2006, lot 1741; and another at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 October 2008, lot 2601.

Dishes of similar size and design are also found with different colored grounds: one with turquoise-ground from the E.T. Chow Collection was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30 October 2002, lot 258.

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