GREEN-ENAMELLED 'DRAGON' DISH
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG MARK, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 4 November 2022 from 10:00 GMT
Description
清 乾隆款 綠釉龍紋盤
the interior painted with a sinuous dragon grasping for a pearl amidst flame scrolls below a pair of green-enamelled line borders, the exterior with a pair of five-clawed dragons in pursuit of flaming pearls, the base inscribed with a six-character Qianlong mark in underglaze blue
Dimensions
17.7cm diameter
Footnote
Note: A similar dish in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated in R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, London, 1986, no. 98 and another in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, was included in the Special Exhibition of K'ang-Hsi, Yung-Cheng, Ch'ien-Lung Porcelain Ware from the National Palace Museum, Taibei, 1986, illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 116, no. 86. Yongzheng and Jiaqing examples can be found in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Miscellaneous Enamelled Porcelains, Plain Tricoloured Porcelains, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Shanghai, 2009, nos. 76 and 77.