A MAGNIFICENT AND RARE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND IRON-RED DECORATED 'NINE DRAGON' CHARGER SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG finely potted with rounded sides rising from a short tapered foot to a flat everted rim, the interior superbly painted with a central medallion enclosing an iron-red scaly five-clawed frontal dragon coiling around a 'flaming pearl', against a ground of underglaze-blue turbulent waves, surrounded on the cavetto with four different iron-red dragons striding rampantly amidst ruyi-shaped cloud scrolls exquisitely rendered in shaded tones of cobalt-blue, each serpentine mythical beast portrayed differently, two of them five-clawed, one with an elongated trunk, the other two three-clawed, one winged and detailed with a fish tail, all surrounded by a border of crashing waves on the rim, the exterior vibrantly decorated with four similar dragons striding through clouds, the base inscribed with an underglaze-blue six-character seal mark 47.6 cm, 18 3/4 in.
A MAGNIFICENT AND RARE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND IRON-RED DECORATED 'NINE DRAGON' CHARGER SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG finely potted with rounded sides rising from a short tapered foot to a flat everted rim, the interior superbly painted with a central medallion enclosing an iron-red scaly five-clawed frontal dragon coiling around a 'flaming pearl', against a ground of underglaze-blue turbulent waves, surrounded on the cavetto with four different iron-red dragons striding rampantly amidst ruyi-shaped cloud scrolls exquisitely rendered in shaded tones of cobalt-blue, each serpentine mythical beast portrayed differently, two of them five-clawed, one with an elongated trunk, the other two three-clawed, one winged and detailed with a fish tail, all surrounded by a border of crashing waves on the rim, the exterior vibrantly decorated with four similar dragons striding through clouds, the base inscribed with an underglaze-blue six-character seal mark 47.6 cm, 18 3/4 in.
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