A blue-ground yellow dragon dish. Qianlong-Pe ...

A blue-ground yellow dragon dish. Qianlong-Periode (1735-1796)

Qianlong six-character mark and of the period

Of saucer-shape with everted rim, the centre painted with a five-clawed dragon writhing amidst flames and cloud swirls in pursuit of a flaming pearl, decorated around the well with two further dragons chasing a flaming pearl, the exterior similarly decorated with a pair of dragons above a lotus lappet border at the foot, all reserved on a blue ground.

Diameter 25.1 cm

** Provenance
Old private collection, Hesse, acquired in the 1960s/70s

清乾隆 青花黃彩龍紋盤 《大清乾隆年製》六字篆書款

來源：德國黑森州私人古舊收藏，購於二十世紀六十/七十年代