AN IMPERIAL YELLOW-ENAMELLED INCISED 'LOTUS' DISH

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

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AN IMPERIAL YELLOW-ENAMELLED INCISED 'LOTUS' DISH
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
Finely potted of gently rounded sides rising to a straight mouth rim, decorated on the exterior with eight stylised lotus blossoms, each with four curly-edged petals surrounding a central bud and with a short scrolling stalk growing small leaves, covered with a soft lemon-yellow enamel
6 1/4 in. (15.8 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Previously sold at Sotheby's London, 8 July 1974, lot 321 and sold again at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20 May 1980, lot 112
Greenwald Collection, no. 51

Literature

Gerald M. Greenwald, The Greenwald Collection, Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics, 1996, Catalogue, no. 51

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Lot Essay

A similar Yongzheng-marked dish of this size incised with floral scrolls, illustrated in Shimmering Colours, Monochromes of the Yuan to Qing Periods, The Zhuyuetang Collection, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005, p. 203, no. 127.

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