A RARE BLUE AND WHITE REVERSE-DECORATED DISH

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE REVERSE-DECORATED DISH
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

The interior decorated in the center with delicate peony blossoms borne on slender, leafy stems, with a band of four different flower sprigs in the well and in a frieze on the exterior below double line borders at the rim, all reserved in white on a powder-blue ground, the veins and details of the leaves and blossoms finely executed in white slip
13in. (33cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Compare the similar dish of this rare pattern sold in our Hong Kong rooms, The Imperial Sale, April 28, 1996, lot 53. It is more usual to find a dish of this type with only a single type of flowering branch depicted, as opposed to the combination of flowers on this dish. See the dish sold in our Hong Kong rooms, op. cit., lot 54 and another sold in these rooms, December 2, 1989, lot 370

For the Ming prototype of this type of dish, see the Xuande-marked dish included in the exhibition, Asian Art, Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, The Asia Society, 1970, Catalogue, p. 59, no. 44