Lot 238
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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MRS. JAMES ALSDORF
A PALE CELADON-GLAZED DISH

Details
A PALE CELADON-GLAZED DISH
YONGZHENG MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD

Finely potted, with rounded sides rising to a flaring rim from the shallow cylindrical foot, covered inside and out with an even bluish-green glaze thinning to white at the rim and pooling at the foot--5¼ in. (13.5cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

For a similar pair with the same unusual mark within a double square see S Marchant & Son, Exhibition of Qing Mark and Period Monochromes and Two-Colored Wares, 1992, Catalogue pl. 15. A pair of dishes with a pale cobalt-blue glaze of the same size in the Percival David Collection is illustrated in the Catalogue, Section 6, nos. B560 and B561