A LARGE REVERSE-DECORATED BLUE-GROUND DISH

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A LARGE REVERSE-DECORATED BLUE-GROUND DISH
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Decorated on both sides with white meandering branches of mallow-like floral sprays reserved against the deep powder-blue ground and detailed with fine slip-trailing, with fine lines encircling a central panel of floral sprays bordering the rim on the interior and exterior (two shallow rim chips and associated short hairline, interior polished)
13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm.) diam., box

Exhibited

Hong Kong Museum of Art, The Urban Council and the Min Chiu Society, Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, 1992, Catalogue, no. 133.

Lot Essay

An identical dish in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is illustrated by Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, revised edition, p. 246, no. 248. Cf. similar dishes, one from the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kadonsha Series, vol. 1, fig. 160; a pair is illustrated by Gullard, Chinese Porcelain, vol. II, nos. 665 and 666; a dish from the collection of Edward Kennedy sold in our New York Rooms, 2 December 1989, lot 370; and a dish sold in these Rooms, 28 April 1996, lot 54.

(US$8,000-10,000)

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