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1357 The bold depiction of the dragons suggests that these dishes date
early in the Yongzheng period.
A RARE PAIR OF GREEN-ENAMELED BLUE AND WHITE
‘DRAGON’ DISHES This pair of dishes is very similar to a pair originally in the
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN collection of Captain C. Oswald Liddell and included in the
UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND Exhibition of the Liddell Collection of Old Chinese Porcelain, Bluett
OF THE PERIOD (1723-1736) & Sons, London, 1929, no. 166, and later sold at Sotheby’s Hong
Kong, 20 November 1985, lot 169.
Each is decorated in the center with a green dragon leaping amidst
fames and clouds in pursuit of a faming pearl, below a band of 清雍正 鬥彩龍鳳紋盤一對 雙圈六字楷書款
dragons and faming pearls in underglaze blue on the everted rim.
The exterior is decorated with four phoenixes in fight amidst clouds.
7√ in. (20 cm.) diam., box (2)
$200,000-300,000
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