Edward Luper
Specialist, Chinese Works of Art
Lot 19
A yellow and green-enamelled 'dragon' foliate-rim dish Daoguang seal mark and of the period
10 November 2016, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £5,000 inc. premium
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A yellow and green-enamelled 'dragon' foliate-rim dish
Daoguang seal mark and of the period
The shallow rounded sides gently rising from a short tapered foot to a foliate rim, the interior centred with a medallion enclosing a front-facing green-enamelled five-clawed dragon coiling around a flaming pearl amidst floral sprays, surrounded by a circular green ring, the cavetto with a pair of writhing dragons in pursuit of flaming pearls amidst further floral sprays, all within a dark aubergine-enamelled line along the rim, the exterior similarly decorated with two green-enamelled dragons soaring amidst floral scrolls in pursuit of flaming pearls, all against a rich yellow ground. 13cm (5 1/4in) diam.
The shallow rounded sides gently rising from a short tapered foot to a foliate rim, the interior centred with a medallion enclosing a front-facing green-enamelled five-clawed dragon coiling around a flaming pearl amidst floral sprays, surrounded by a circular green ring, the cavetto with a pair of writhing dragons in pursuit of flaming pearls amidst further floral sprays, all within a dark aubergine-enamelled line along the rim, the exterior similarly decorated with two green-enamelled dragons soaring amidst floral scrolls in pursuit of flaming pearls, all against a rich yellow ground. 13cm (5 1/4in) diam.
Footnotes
清道光 黃地綠彩盤龍戲珠紋花口盤
青花「大清道光年製」篆書款
Provenance: an English private collection, sold in these rooms on 10 July 2006, lot 212
A distinguished English private collection, and thence by descent
來源：英國私人收藏，2006年7月10日於倫敦邦瀚斯拍賣，拍品212號
顯貴英國私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今
Compare a yellow and green-enamelled foliate-rim dish, Daoguang seal mark and of the period, illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing: From the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 1983, p.75. A similar example from the Baoyizhai collection, Daoguang seal mark and of the period, was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong on 27 May 2014, lot 636.
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