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THE PROPERTY OF MARCHANT, EST. 1925
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A IRON-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE-DECORATED ‘DRAGON’ DISH
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The interior of the dish is decorated with an iron-red fve-clawed dragon leaping amidst cresting
underglaze-blue waves. The reverse is similarly enameled with nine iron-red dragons in diferent poses
rendered against a blue wave ground, all beneath a band of fowerheads.
7 in. (17.8 cm.) diam.
$30,000-40,000

PROVENANCE
The Songzhutang Collection.
A similar pair of ‘dragon’ dishes was sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet, Hong Kong, The Edward T. Chow
Collection, Part One, Ming and Qing Porcelain, 25 November 1980, lot 124. Compare, also, a similar
single ‘dragon’ dish from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, which was sold at Christie’s New
York, 15 September 2016, lot 975, and another from the Greenwald Collection, illustrated by Gerald M.
Greenwald, The Greenwald Collection, Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics, 1996, no. 57, which was
sold at Christie’s New York, 24 March 2011, lot 1784.
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