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

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A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE 'PEONY' DISHES
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
Each dish is naturalistically painted in the central medallion in delicate shades of blue with two butterflies in flight above leafy branches bearing three full peony blossoms growing from pierced rockwork. The exterior is similarly decorated with chrysanthemum, hibiscus and other flowering shrubs growing from behind rocks, all within single and double-line borders.
8 1/4 in. (20.9 cm.) diam., box (2)

Provenance

The T.Y. Chao Private and Family Trust Collections of Important Chinese Ceramics, Part 1, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 18 November 1986, lot 78

Exhibited

The Hong Kong Museum of Art, Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, illustrated in the Catalogue, 1978, no. 86

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Lot Essay

A Yongzheng dish of this design, from the author's collection, is illustrated by S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1971, pl. LXI; another pair is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, pl. 764.

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