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三 38. Pair of Imperial wucai dishes, pan, with slightly everted flat lipped rims, each painted with a full facing leaping five-
十 clawed green dragon with white horns about to grasp an iron-red flaming pearl, all amongst further iron-red flames
八 and doucai ruyi-head clouds, within a double ring, encircled by a border of five underglaze blue dragons in pursuit of

flaming pearls beneath the gilt lipped rim, the underside with four phoenix birds in flight amongst ruyi-head clouds.
御 20cm diameter.
製 The bases with six-character marks of Yongzheng within double rings in underglaze blue and of the period, 1723-1735.
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彩 • Formerly in an English private collection.
龍 • An identical pair, from the collection of Captain C. Oswald Liddell, previously sold by Bluett and Son in their
鳳 exhibition of The Liddell Collection, 30th May 1929, no. 166, was included by Marchant in their exhibition of
紋 Important Chinese Porcelain from Private Collections, 2012, no. 29, pp. 70/1.
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