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A FINE PAIR OF IRON-RED DECORATED ‘DRAGON’ CUPS AND AN IRON-
RED AND GILT DECORATED ‘DRAGON’ DISH
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)
Comprised of a pair of cups each decorated in iron red with two five-clawed dragons
pursuing flaming pearls amidst flame scrolls and above roaring waves; and a dish enamelled
in iron red to the interior with an ascending and a descending dragon contesting a gilt
flaming pearl, their eyes picked out in turquoise, the design repeated on the exterior.
Cups: 2¡ in. (6 cm.) diam.; dish: 10º in. (26 cm.) diam., box (3)
HK$70,000-90,000 US$9,100-12,000
清光緒 礬紅彩雙龍趕珠酒盃一對、礬紅彩描金雙龍戲珠盤 六字楷書款
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