A FINE PAIR OF INSCRIBED BLUE AND WHITE TEA TRAYS SEAL MARKS AND PERIOD OF JIAQING | 清嘉慶 青花御題詩海棠式茶盤一對 《大清嘉慶年製》款

A FINE PAIR OF INSCRIBED BLUE AND WHITE TEA TRAYS

SEAL MARKS AND PERIOD OF JIAQING

清嘉慶 青花御題詩海棠式茶盤一對 《大清嘉慶年製》款

each with shallow lobed sides of quatrefoil section, raised on four short bracket feet, the interior inscribed with an imperial poem pertaining to the preparation of tea and dated to the dingsi year of the Jiaqing reign (corresponding to 1797), surrounded by a band of scrolling lotus and florets repeated on the interior and exterior walls with a variation on the central bloom, the base inscribed with a six-character seal mark

15.8 cm, 6¼ in.