Name: A BLUE AND WHITE QUATRELOBED DISH AND A DOUCAI FOLIATE BOWL
Brand: QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
Price: 1500.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

A BLUE AND WHITE QUATRELOBED DISH AND A DOUCAI FOLIATE BOWL
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The dish is raised on four short feet with everted rim, decorated on the exterior with lotus scroll. The bowl has deep sides and is decorated on the exterior with shou characters amidst floral scrolls above waves and below a border of bats. The base is inscribed with a six-character Jiaqing seal mark.
8 5/8 and 5 ½ in. (21.9 and 14 cm.) diam.

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Christie's is pleased to offer a selection of porcelain, jade carvings and works of art from the collection of Dr. Ralph W. Chaney (1890-1971). Dr. Chaney was a renowned paleontologist who collected porcelain and works of art throughout his lifetime of travels and scientific study in China and Japan. In 1925, he participated in the Third Central Asiatic Expedition to Mongolia, where the world's first discovery of dinosaur eggs was made, and he discovered the first fossilized redwood trees in Manchuria. He was a major participant in the search for the "Peking Man" at the Choukoutien Cave site and, in 1948, Dr. Chaney mounted a successful expedition to the Sichuan-Hubei region of China in search of the Metasequoia, a living species of redwood tree that was thought to be extinct. With science, Dr. Chaney lived his passion for discovery. He applied the same passion to his personal collecting.