YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

Details

A Rare Pair of Green and Black-Glazed Saucer Dishes
Yongzheng six-character marks in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the period
Each with shallow rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, decorated on the interior with a finely drawn blossoming prunus branch reserve, the exterior encircled by a frieze of lotus scroll bearing eight blossoms positioned below each of the bajixiang, all within line borders and reserved in emerald green on a black ground
6¼ and 61/8in. (15.8 adn 15.5cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

Stephen Junkunc III.

Lot Essay

It is unusual to find a dish in this palette without a patterned border around the central decoration, such as the dish with a ruyi border encircling a central design of flowering plants included in the exhibition, Noted Chinese Ceramics, Japan, 1992, no. 155. Compare, also, another Yongzheng dish decorated with a bird perched on a flowering branch, illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection: Chinese Ceramics, Geneva, 1974 vol. IV, no. A568-569.

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