A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE 'DUCK AND LOTUS POND' DISHES
A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE 'DUCK AND LOTUS POND' DISHES
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A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE 'DUCK AND LOTUS POND' DISHES

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE 'DUCK AND LOTUS POND' DISHES
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
Each dish is decorated to the interior with a central medallion depicting a pair of mandarin ducks in a lotus pond. The exterior is similarly decorated with two pairs of mandarin ducks swimming amongst lotus, all below a band of six dragons each in pursuit of the flaming pearl.
6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm) diam.

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Lot Essay

The decorative motif used on the current dishes appears to have been extremely popular during the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor. Compare a single dish, virtually identical to the current lot, from the Leshantang Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 3 June 2015, lot 3231.
Slight variations in decoration can also be found as some wares are further enamelled in doucai. See a pair of similar dishes, decorated in doucai illustrated by E.T. Chow and F.S. Drake "Kuan-Yao and Min-Yao, A Study on Imperial Porcelain and People's Porcelain from K'ang-hsi to the end of the Ch'ing Dynasty", Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, XIII, 1959, pl. I, figs. I and 2.

A single dish of this pattern can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics in the World's Great Collections, 1982, vol. 11, no. 144. Another from the Christina Loke Balsara Collection is illustrated in Laszlo Legeze, 'Ming and Ch'ing Imperial Tou-Ts'ai and Wu-Ts'ai Porcelains', Arts of Asia, September/October 1979, p. 102, and sold in these Rooms, 19 January 1988, lot no. 294

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