A LIME-GREEN GROUND FAMILLE ROSE TEA TRAY SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG |

of quatrefoil form raised on four short bracket feet heightened in iron red, the interior centre vividly decorated in bright enamels with a flowerhead encircled by four lotus blossoms and buds borne on scrolling branches interlocked by ruyi heads, the interior and exterior walls similarly enamelled with scrolling floral sprays, all divided by a gilt border and reserved on a rich lime-green ground continuing over the base save for an iron-red six-character seal mark against a white cartouche

An English private collection.

Good condition with just two minute nicks to the rim and insignificant wear to the enamels.
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A closely related lime-green tea tray, but with a Jiaqing mark and of the period, in the collection of the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Chen Xiejun and Benno Tempel, Imperial Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, 2011, pl. 81.