GREEN-ENAMELLED 'DRAGON' DISH QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG MARK, 18TH-19TH CENTURY 清 乾隆款 綠釉龍紋盤 the interior painted with a sinuous dragon grasping for a pearl amidst flame scrolls below a pair of green-enamelled line borders, the exterior with a pair of five-clawed dragons in pursuit of flaming pearls, the base inscribed with a six-character Qianlong mark in underglaze blue (17.7cm diameter) Qty: (1) Note: A similar dish in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated in R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, London, 1986, no. 98 and another in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, was included in the Special Exhibition of K'ang-Hsi, Yung-Cheng, Ch'ien-Lung Porcelain Ware from the National Palace Museum, Taibei, 1986, illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 116, no. 86. Yongzheng and Jiaqing examples can be found in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Miscellaneous Enamelled Porcelains, Plain Tricoloured Porcelains, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Shanghai, 2009, nos. 76 and 77.