A FINE BLUE AND WHITE PEONY DISH

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A FINE BLUE AND WHITE PEONY DISH
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Naturalistically painted on the central medallion in delicate shades of blue with two butterflies in flight above leafy branches bearing three peony blooms growing from pierced rockwork, the reverse painted in similar style with chrysanthemum, hibiscus and other flowering shrubs growing from rocks, all within single and double-line borders
8 3/16 in. (20.8 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

A Yongzheng dish of this design, from the author's collection, is illustrated by S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, 1971, pl. LXI; a pair from the T. Y. Chao Collection was exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1978, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 86; and another pair is in the Meiyintang Collection, illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, pl. 764.

This pattern is also recorded in doucai enamels, an example from the Woodthorpe Collection, was included in the O. C. S. Exhibition of Enamelled Polychrome Porcelain of the Manchu Dynasty, London 1951, Catalogue, no. 99.

(US$32,000-40,000)

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