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THE PROPERTY OF A CHINESE-AMERICAN FAMILY
1835
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 A dish of identical design and similar size is in the National Museum
and pale turquoise faceted 'jewel' repeated as pendants hung from the of China, illustrated in Studies of the Collections of the National
surrounding lotus scroll, all below a band of pendent leaf tips at the top Museum of China, Shanghai, 2007, no. 131. A similar example from the
of the well, and a lotus border at the base of the everted rim, which is Weishaupt Collection is illustrated by Gunhild Avitabile, Vom Schatz
pierced with a series of lotus joined by iron-red cords. The lotus and der Drachen (From the Dragon's Treasure), London, 1987, p. 32, no. 21.
'jewel' design are repeated around the exterior, and the base is covered A number of Jiaqing-marked examples of the same design have been
in a rich turquoise glaze surrounding the reign mark. 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
15Ω in. (39.3 cm.) diam.
2601.
$30,000-50,000 Dishes of similar size and design are also found with different colored
grounds: one with turquoise-ground from the E.T. Chow Collection
清嘉慶 胭脂紅地粉彩花卉紋鏤空大盤 礬紅六字篆書款 was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30 October 2002, lot 258.

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