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VARIOUS PROPERTIES The present blue and white decorated dish raises
the intriguing possibility that it may have been
1265 intended for further and more lavish decoration
A BLUE AND WHITE RETICULATED DISH in enamels and gilt. See, for example, a related
blue and white reticulated dish, dated to the
18TH CENTURY Qianlong period, with the river landscape further
The dish is decorated in underglaze blue in the picked out with gilding and the sides enameled
center with a scene of a fsherman fshing on in turquoise, pink and reddish-brown, illustrated
a rocky promontory across from a hut on the in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong: Qing Porcelain
opposite shore. The sides are fnely pierced below from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong,
a band of key fret at the interior rim. The exterior 1989, no. 81.
has four pairs of confronted stylized chilong above
the foot and a band of classic scroll below the rim. Another related dish with enameled decoration,
10ºin. (26cm.) diam., box from the Xu Hanqing Collection, was sold at
Christie’s New York, 15 September 2011, lot 939.
$6,000-8,000 (Fig.1) This dish is also enameled on the base
with the six-character mark Guojijushi qingshang
PROVENANCE (made for the appreciation of Tang Ying),
suggesting that this type of ware held a personal
Admor Antiques Gallery, Oak Brook, Illinois. appeal for Tang Ying (1682-1756), the infuential
superintendent of the Imperial kilns at Jingdezhen
and Vice-Director of the Imperial Household Fig. 1: A dish from the Xu Hanqing Collection, Christie’s
Department. New York, 15 September 2011, lot 939.
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