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10 août 2013

A rare pair of Ming-style underglaze blue iron-red-ground dishes, Qianlong seal marks and period (1736-1795)

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Lot 45. A rare pair of Ming-style underglaze blue iron-red-ground dishes, Qianlong seal marks and period  (1736-1795). Diameter 4 1/2 in., 11.4 cm. Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 USDLot sold 122,500 USDPhoto Sotheby's

each painted in cobalt blue on the interior with simulated 'heaping and piling' with a bouquet of ribbon-tied lotus and water weeds, the cavetto with composite floral scrolls and a band of classic scroll at the rim, the exterior with a repeated floral scroll and a key-fret border just below the rim, reserved on a rich iron-red ground leaving the rim and base white, seal mark in underglaze blue (2). 

Property from the Estate of William and Jennifer Shaw

Provenance Christie's Swire Hong Kong, 24th October 1993, lot 831.

Note: It is extremely rare to find dishes of this pattern reserved on iron-red grounds, though these can be found reserved on yellow grounds. See, for example, the Qianlong-marked dish with similar pattern but of larger size illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S.C Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, vol. I, pl. 109.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 11 september 2012

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