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AN IMPERIAL-INSCRIBED LIME-GREEN-
GROUND FAMILLE ROSE LOBED TRAY
JIAQING IRON-RED SIX-CHARACTER SEAL
MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
The tray has shallow rounded sides raised on four
bracket supports and is decorated on the exterior and
interior with lotus and fower sprays reserved on a lime-
green ground that surrounds an iron-red Imperial poem
praising well-prepared tea, that is dated to the cyclical
year of dingsi, corresponding to 1797. The base is also
covered in lime-green enamel surrounding the nianhao.

6º in. (16 cm.) long, box

$25,000-35,000

PROVENANCE

Private Chinese collection, acquired prior to 1949.

An identical tray, of Jiaqing date, is illustrated by A. J.
Allen, Allen’s Introduction to Later Chinese Porcelain,
New Zealand, 1996, p. 193, pl. 109. Others have been
sold at Christie’s: one in Paris, 13 June 2007, lot 223;
two in New York, 21 March 2013, lots 902 and 905; and
one in Hong Kong, 27 November 2013.

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