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A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ‘QILIN’ DISH
SHUNZHI 1644-61
Painted with the scaly mythical beast with its front right leg raised and its head turned
towards the sky, it sits in a landscape with a plantain tree and rocks in the background,
the underside decorated with three precious objects, the base with a four character
mark reading Zhi Lan Zhai zhi, with a paper label for Robert McPherson, London, 28.5cm.
£1,500-2,000
Provenance: from a British private collection, purchased from Stockspring Antiques, London,
on 18th November 1998. A copy of the invoice is available.
Cf. R Chen, Qing Shunzhi Kangxi Chao Qinghua Ci (Qing Dynasty Shunzhi and Kangxi Blue
and White Porcelain), pp.44-45, no.20 for another Shunzhi dish with this design in the
collection of the Palace Museum; see also Sotheby’s New York, 19th March 2019, lot 312 for
another comparable piece.
清順治 青花麒麟紋碟
《芝蘭齋製》青花楷書款
來源：英國私人收藏，1998年11月18日購於Stockspring
Antiques（附發票複印件）。

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