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A RARE LARGE FAMILLE ROSE PIERCED-RIM DISH

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The dish is decorated on the interior with a geometric jewel surrounded by lotus fowers borne on foliate
scrolls and four further geometric jewels, below a band of pendent leaves at the rim, all on a white enamel
ground. The wide, everted rim is pierced with circular perforations joined by iron-red cords and the exterior
is decorated en suite with geometric jewels alternating with lotus fowers.
15¬ in. (39.7 cm.) diam.

$100,000-150,000

Dishes of this rare type with a pierced rim and bearing a Qianlong reign mark are very rare, but
appear to have been produced in larger quantities during the following Jiaqing reign as there are
more surviving examples bearing Jiaqing reign marks. These include one with a ruby ground in the
Weishaupt Collection, illustrated by G. Avitabile, From the Dragon’s Treasure, London, 1987, p. 32, no. 21;
a turquoise-ground example donated by T. T. Tsui to the Hong Kong Heritage Museum (accession no.
1997.97.172); another turquoise-ground dish formerly in the E. T. Chow Collection sold at Sotheby’s Hong
Kong, 30 October 2002, lot 258, and a ruby-ground example sold at Christie’s New York, 2 June 1989,
lot 218.
清乾隆 粉彩蓮紋鏤空折沿大盤 礬紅六字篆書款

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