AN INSCRIBED BLUE AND WHITE TEA TRAY SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF JIAQING |

the shallow lobed sides of quatrefoil section, raised on four short bracket feet, the interior inscribed with an imperial poem pertaining to the preparation of tea and dated to the dingsi year of the Jiaqing reign (corresponding to 1797), surrounded by a band of scrolling lotus and florets repeated on the interior and exterior walls with a variation on the central bloom, the base inscribed with a six-character seal mark

Collection of Evelyn Williams Meadows Norie (1862-1915), and thence by descent.

good condition
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A closely related dish is illustrated in Gunhild Avitabile, Vom Schatz der Drachen/From The Dragon's Treasure, London, 1987, col. pl. 13. For another similar dish, see H.A. van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th centuries, Tijdstroom, 1977, pl. 2; and another in The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, included in the Gallery’s exhibition Late Chinese Imperial Porcelain, Sydney, 1980, cat. no. 5.