Lot Essay
During the Yongzheng and early Qianlong period there was a particular interest in producing porcelain saucer-dishes in this distinctive chrysanthemum-head form; mostly under plain glazes. The Emperor Yongzheng commissioned a set of twelve dishes of this shape in 1733, each with a different coloured glaze, which is now in the Beijing Palace Museum; cf. the footnote to the Robert Chang Collection, Christie's London, June 1993, Catalogue, no.43. It may therefore be possible that this dish is rather earlier than traditionally dated. Cf. the similar dish in the H. Man Collection, illustrated in Chinese Jades from Man's Collection, Catalogue, no.137