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AN IMPOSING AND RARE MASSIVE BLUE AND WHITE
CHARGER
Qianlong period, circa 1750-1760
Painted in rich underglaze cobalt blue with a central river landscape
with a pagoda on a distant shoreline amidst trees, hills and mountains
above, the foreground with a bridge leading to a flat-roofed structure
with small buildings, a boat drifts in the mid distance and two,
seemingly out-sized, mandarin ducks fly and swim nearby, the cavetto
painted with four small ogival peony panels set against a dense
stylized flower-head cell ground, the wide everted border with four
floral groupings alternately peony and chrysanthemum with asters
below a diaper-cell-ground band at the brown-dressed rim, the exterior
plain, save for a feint blue stripe at one edge, the wide rounded foot
rim unglazed and a square unglazed patch at the center for support in
the kiln.
24in (60cm) diam
$6,000 - 8,000

乾隆時期 罕有大件青花古塔湖景圖盤
This is almost certainly one of the largest such chargers recorded and
is at the physical limits for this type - any larger and it would warp or
collapse in the kiln. It is finely painted and in excellent condition, save
for a few kiln adhesions and iron spots.

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