Lot 1770. A fine doucai 'anbaxian' ogee dish, Qianlong six-character sealmark and of the period (1736-1995); 8 in. (20.3 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 120,000 - HKD 180,000. Price realised HKD 187,500. © Christie's Image Ltd 2008.

Painted and enamelled to the sunken interior medallion with a full-faced flower-head encircled by four peaches and stylised lotus-blossom scrolls, the rounded flaring rim with the Eight Daoist Emblems, anbaxian, tied to flower sprays with fluttering ribbons, the exterior with exotic blooms on a foliate scroll above a band of colourful ruyi heads around the foot, box. 

Note: Previously sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 19 March 1991, lot 598.

A Qianlong dish of this pattern was included in Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, 1977, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 83.