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PROPERTY FROM THE JAMES K. LI COLLECTION
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A RARE AND MASSIVE FAMILLE VERTE INCISED ‘DRAGON’ DISH
CHU XIU GONG ZHI FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE, GUANGXU
PERIOD (1875-1908)
The dish is fnely and heavily potted with shallow, rounded sides, and the interior is decorated in rich
yellow, green, turquoise and aubergine with branches of peony, citron and camellia emerging from rocks,
all partially obscuring incised decoration of a pair of fve-clawed dragons chasing a faming pearl amidst
fames below a band of incised fowering branches. The exterior is incised with two further pairs of fve-
clawed dragons pursuing faming pearls, partially obscured by four fowering branches including peony,
camellia and chrysanthemum.
25º in. (64.3 cm.) diam.
$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE
Collection of Ambassador Ti-Tsun Li (1901-1981), and thence by descent to the present owner.
A larger dish with almost identical design and the same hallmark is illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of
Late Qing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, p. 104, no. 96, and front cover.
清光緒 素三彩龍紋大盤 「儲秀宮製」四字篆書款

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