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PROPERTY OF A GERMAN COLLECTOR 清乾隆
A FINE AND RARE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 青花海水雲龍捧壽紋大盤
‘DRAGON’ DISH 《大清乾隆年製》款
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD
boldly painted to the centre in varying tones of deep cobalt
blue with a large leaping dragon amidst clouds and flames
and enclosing a stylised shou character in the curve of its
body, encircled around the well by a band of four striding
sinuous dragons pursuing each other, the everted rim painted
with crested waves on a rolling blue sea, the exterior with a
continuous frieze of jagged rocks issuing from turbulent waves,
the base inscribed with a six-character seal mark in underglaze
blue
Diameter 44.5 cm, 17½ in.
This dish is part of a group of dishes of the same large size
and shape, all painted in similar tones of vibrant and unusually
deep dark blue with a central dragon. Compare a dish sold in
Christie’s Hong Kong, 30th April 2000, lot 599, and another
example sold in Christie’s New York, 25th March 2011, lot
1667. A third dish of this type from the Gulexuan collection,
is illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the
Gulexuan Collection, Luenen, 2003, p. 156.

£ 70,000-90,000

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