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DRAGONS FROM THE EMPIRE - IMPERIAL CERAMICS FROM THE YIDETANG COLLECTION
龍行皇天 - 藝德堂珍藏御製陶瓷
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A FINE AND RARE IRON-RED DECORATED 清雍正 米黃地礬紅彩雲龍戲珠紋盤 雙方框六字楷書款
CAFÉ-AU-LAIT GROUND ‘DRAGON’ DISH 來源

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE E. T. Hall 舊藏，編號 288
WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The dish is finely painted in iron red with a ferocious five-clawed S. Marchant & Son，倫敦
dragon in pursuit of a flaming pearl amid flames and clouds on
the central medallion, with a border of rolling and crashing waves 展覽
interspersed with jagged mountains on the exterior, all reserved on 倫敦東方陶瓷學會 / 牛津阿什莫林博物館，《Iron in the fire:
a café-au-lait glaze. the Chinese Potters’ exploration of iron oxide glazes》，1998 年，
5º in. (13.4 cm.) diam., box 圖版 81 號
S. Marchant & Son，倫敦，《Imperial Porcelain of Kangxi,
PROVENANCE
E. T. Hall Collection, no. 288 Yongzheng and Qianlong》，1996 年 6 月，頁 39，圖版 23 號
S. Marchant & Son, London 米黃地礬紅彩品種十分少見，本盤飾以龍紋，更為稀罕。近似例似僅見
香港佳士得拍賣兩對，一對於 1991 年 10 月 1 日拍賣，拍品 846 號；另
EXHIBITED
Oriental Ceramics Society, London; Ashmolean Museum, 一對於 2005 年 5 月 30 日拍賣，拍品 1470 號。
Oxford, Iron in the fire: the Chinese Potters’exploration of iron oxide
glazes, 1988, Catalogue, no. 81
S. Marchant & Son, London, Imperial Porcelain of Kangxi,
Yongzheng and Qianlong, 9 June-25 June 1996, Catalogue, p. 39,
no. 23
HK$1,500,000-2,500,000 US$200,000-320,000
The visually striking combination of café-au-lait ground and iron-red
decoration is very rare, and only two other pairs of dishes bearing this
design appear to be known, one was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1
October 1991, lot 846, the other was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30
May 2005, lot 1470.

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