A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI FLORAL MEDALLION DISHES

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A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI FLORAL MEDALLION DISHES
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

Each finely painted to the interior medallion with four iron-red lotus blooms issuing scrolling tendrils and trefoil leaves and surrounding a central bloom, the motif repeated on the exterior (one with hairline to rim)
8 in. (20.2 cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

Compare with a pair of Yongzheng dishes of this pattern and size in the Exhibition of Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Hong Kong, 1973, Catalogue, no. 88; a larger dish is illustrated by Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, no. 210.

(US$35,000-40,000)

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