A FINE AND RARE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' DISH, QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD | 清乾隆青花海水雲龍捧壽紋大盤《大清乾隆年製》款

Auction Closed

November 4, 07:52 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 90,000 GBP

Lot Details

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A FINE AND RARE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' DISH

QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD

清乾隆青花海水雲龍捧壽紋大盤《大清乾隆年製》款

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.

A FINE AND RARE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' DISH, QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD | 清乾隆 青花海水雲龍捧壽紋大盤 《大清乾隆年製》款

A FINE AND RARE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' DISH, QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD | 清乾隆青花海水雲龍捧壽紋大盤《大清乾隆年製》款