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AN EXTREMELY RARE AND LARGE BLUE AND
WHITE ‘BAJIXIANG’ DISH
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD
robustly potted with shallow curved sides supported on
a tapered foot rising to a flat rim, vividly painted in the
center with a stylized lotus enclosed by flying bats and
florets, the cavetto decorated with beribboned ‘Eight
Buddhist Emblems’ above lotus blossom scrolls, all within
a continuous band of cresting waves at the rim, the reverse
with further bats swooping above turbulent waves crashing
against rocks, the countersunk base with a six-character seal
mark in underglaze blue
Diameter 17¼ in., 43.9 cm.

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 29th April 1992, lot 139.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8th April 2011, lot 3131.
EXHIBITED
Min Chiu Society (according to label).

⊖ $ 250,000-350,000
清乾隆 青花纏枝蓮八吉祥紋大盤
《大清乾隆年製》款

來源
香港蘇富比1992年4月29日，編號139
香港蘇富比2011年4月8日，編號3131

展覽
敏求精舍 (標籤)

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