A very fine pair of anhua-decorated 'green dragon' dishes, Qianlong six-character seal marks and of the period
A very fine pair of anhua-decorated 'green dragon' dishes, Qianlong six-character seal marks and of the period. Photo courtesy Bonhams.
Each centrally decorated with a ferocious five-clawed dragon in flight chasing a flaming pearl amidst wispy clouds, the exterior with a continuous scene of two dragons chasing flaming pearls above a delicately incised wave ground in anhua, all enclosed within wide green-glazed borders, the bases each with a six-character Imperial zhuanshu seal mark in underglaze blue. Each 18cm diam. (2). Estimate HK$ 1.5 million - 3 million (€140,000 - 290,000)
Compare other examples decorated with similar dragon motifs and anhua technique dated to the Yongzheng and Jiaqing period in the Qing court collection, currently housed in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Miscellaneous Enamelled Porcelains Plain Tricoloured Porcelain, Shanghai, 2009, pp.95-96, no.76 & 77.
Bonhams. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART. Hong Kong. 24 Nov 2013 14:00 CST