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A FINE BLUE-GROUND YELLOW-ENAMELLED                                  A BLUE AND WHITE ‘NINE PEACHES’ DISH
‘DRAGON’ BOWL
                                                                     QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
DAOGUANG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE                  AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
AND OF THE PERIOD (1821-1850)
                                                                     The dish is painted in cobalt of inky-blue tones in the centre
The bowl is decorated with two five-clawed dragons striding           of the interior with nine peach fruits borne on leafy gnarled
through clouds and flames in pursuit of flaming pearls above a         branches, the exterior with a band of morning glory scroll, all
band of overlapping lotus petals encircling the base, the interior   against a later enamelled yellow ground.
with a central medallion enclosing a third dragon, all decorated in  10 ƒ in. (26.7 cm.) diam., box
bright yellow enamel reserved on a deep underglaze-blue ground.
4 º in. (10.4 cm.) diam.                                             HK$500,000-800,000               US$65,000-100,000

HK$100,000-150,000  US$13,000-19,000                                 PROVENANCE

                                                                     T.T. Tsui Collection, Hong Kong

                                                                     LITERATURE

                                                                     The Tsui Museum of Art: Chinese Cearmics IV, Qing Dynasty, Hong
                                                                     Kong, 1995, pl. 90

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