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Lot Essay
A Yongzheng-marked dish of slightly smaller size (20 cm.), also covered inside and out with a ruby-colored enamel, but without incised decoration, is illustrated in Qingdai yuyao Ciqi, vol. I, Part 2, Beijing, 2005, pp. 419-20, no. 196. Another Yongzheng-marked example of smaller size (15 cm.), covered only on the exterior with ruby-colored enamel, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 37 - Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 36, no. 32.
This color of enamel is more commonly seen on Yongzheng-marked chrysanthemum dishes, such as the example with a rose-colored enamel in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo/New York/San Francisco, 1980, no. 264.
See, also, a pair of chrysanthemum dishes of a paler pink color sold at Christie's New York, 2 June 1989, lot 206.
This color of enamel is more commonly seen on Yongzheng-marked chrysanthemum dishes, such as the example with a rose-colored enamel in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo/New York/San Francisco, 1980, no. 264.
See, also, a pair of chrysanthemum dishes of a paler pink color sold at Christie's New York, 2 June 1989, lot 206.