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AN IRON-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE-
DECORATED ‘DRAGON’ DISH

YUYAN SHUWU FOUR-CHARACTER HALLMARK IN BLACK
ENAMEL, YONGZHENG-QIANLONG PERIOD (1723-1795)

The interior is decorated with a fve-clawed dragon chasing
a faming pearl amidst scrolling clouds. The reverse is
decorated with two dragons chasing faming pearls.
6¡ in. (16.2 cm.) diam.

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE

Marie-Louise Gárbaty Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned
in 1993.

Yuyan Shuwu, ‘The Library of Washing Inkstone’, is a hall
mark used in the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods. An
iron-red and underglaze-blue ‘dragon’ wine cup and stand
with this mark, also written in black enamel, was sold at
Christie’s New York, 20-21 March 2014, lot 2152. A set
of four blue and white and copper-red wine cups with this
mark, but written in underglaze-blue, was sold at Christie’s
New York, 15-16 September 2011, lot 1529.

清雍正/乾隆青花礬紅雲龍紋盤墨彩雙方框《浴硯書屋》款

來源
Marie-Louise Gárbaty 珍藏。
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1993年。

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