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PROPERTY FROM THE JAMES K. LI COLLECTION
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A GREEN-ENAMELED CORAL-GROUND ‘SHOU’ DISH A PAIR OF LARGE IRON-RED-DECORATED ‘DRAGON’ DISHES
XIEZHU ZHUREN ZAO HALL MARK IN IRON RED, DAOGUANG PERIOD GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER IRON RED MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD
(1821-1850) (1875-1908)
The dish is decorated in green enamel in the interior with a shou medallion and Each shallow dish is decorated in the center and the well with a large dragon
on the exterior with a band of shou characters, all reserved on a reddish-coral chasing a faming pearl amidst fames, and on the exterior with four foral sprays.
ground. The mouth rim is gilded.
15æ in, (39.8 cm.) diam.
9æ in. (24.7 cm.) diam., cloth box (2)
$12,000-18,000
$7,000-9,000
PROVENANCE
清道光 珊瑚紅地綠彩壽字盤 礬紅「薢竹主人造」篆書款 Collection of Ambassador Ti-Tsun Li (1901-1981), and thence by descent to the
present owner.
The design of a single, bold dragon exhibited on the present pair of dishes is
quite unusual. It is more common to fnd large iron-red-decorated ‘dragon’
dishes from the Guangxu period decorated with a pair of confronted dragons,
such as the example illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, The
Chinese University of Hong Kong, p. 116, no. 115.
清光緒 礬紅龍紋盤一對 礬紅六字楷書款

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