A PAIR OF UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND IRON-RED-DECORATED SAUCER DISHES

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A PAIR OF UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND IRON-RED-DECORATED SAUCER DISHES
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Each dish delicately painted in iron-red on the central medallion with an S-shaped vine sprouting lingzhi, repeated around the exterior as a continuous scroll, all within underglaze-blue double-lines
4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm.) diam., box (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. similar other dishes of this size and design, one included in the Hong Kong O. C. S. exhibition, Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, Fung Ping Shan Museum, Hong Kong, 1977, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 78. Compare also two pairs, the first sold in our London Rooms, 20 June 1984, lot 277; and the other sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 27 April 1993, lot 115.

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