A FINE AND RARE PINK-ENAMELLED SAUCER DISH
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A FINE AND RARE PINK-ENAMELLED SAUCER DISH

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

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A FINE AND RARE PINK-ENAMELLED SAUCER DISH
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-SQUARES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The dish is delicately potted with shallow, rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim. The exterior is covered with a faintly mottled pink enamel and the interior and base are covered with a transparent glaze.
5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Nagatani Inc., Michigan, 1955
Stephen Junkunc, III
Sold at Christie's New York, 21 September 1995, lot 250

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Lot Essay

A similarly enamelled dish with the same mark is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and illustrated by Suzanne Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, rev. ed., p. 252, no. 256. A larger pink-enamelled dish (25 cm.) but with a Yongzheng mark within double-circles is in the Baur Collection, illustrated by John Ayers in The Baur Collection Chinese Ceramics, vol. III, Geneva, 1972, no. A481; and a pair is in the Percival David Foundation, now housed at the British Museum, illustrated by Rosemary Scott, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Qing Monochrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1989, p. 49, no. B532.

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