A fine pair of copper-red-glazed saucer dishes, Qianlong six-character marks and of the period (1736-1795)
Lot 101. A fine pair of copper-red-glazed saucer dishes, Qianlong six-character marks and of the period (1736-1795). Each 17.6cm (7in) diam. (2). Sold for £12,500 (€16,232). © Bonhams 2001-2016.
Each with shallow rounded sides, covered overall with a rich strawberry-red glaze stopping neatly below the mouth rim and just above the foot rim.
Provenance: a European private collection, acquired between 1960-70, and thence by descent
Note: Compare with an identical red-glazed saucer dish, Qianlong six-character mark and of the period, illustrated inTreasures of Imperial Porcelain: Official Kiln Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty Collected by Hangzhou Tu Huo Zhai Museum of Antique Ceramics, Hangzhou, 2011, pp.90-91. Another example, Qianlong six-character mark, was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 October 2014, lot 3611.
Bonhams. AUCTION 23237: FINE CHINESE ART, LONDON, NEW BOND STREET