Grand plat en porcelaine Chine, dynastie Qing, époque Guangxu (1875-1908)

circulaire à hauts bords, à décor émaillé vert sur fond bleu, le médaillon central avec un grand dragon en vol dans les nuages, le cavetto et le pourtour extérieur avec deux dragons poursuivant des perles enflammées, le rebord et la base émaillés blanc avec marque archaïsante Gui Xiu Gong en bleu sur couverte 

Christie's Hong Kong, 29^th April 1996 lot 782.

The dish is in good condition with the exception of light scratches and pin prick air bubbles to the glaze inside and beneath the base.
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Another Guangxu charger of this form and decoration, bearing a similar four-character Chuxiugong (Palace for Gathering Elegance) mark, was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 31^st October 1974, lot 295. A smaller related piece of the Daoguang period, from the collection of Rudolf Schaeffer, was sold at Christie's New York, 6^th June 1985, lot 244; and one attributed to the Tongzhi reign, included in the exhibition The Splendour of Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1992, cat. no. 143, was sold at Christie's Singapore, 30^th March 1999, lot 345.

Late Qing examples of blue and green dragon chargers are after earlier, Kangxi period, prototypes. For a Kangxi example see a dish illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 15, Tokyo, 1983, colour pl. 20, in the Baur collection, Geneva. Another Kangxi mark and period charger of this decoration, in the Matsuoka Museum of Art, Tokyo, was included in the exhibition Chugoku toji meihin ten, Matsuoka Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1983, cat. no. 81.