YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Details

A FINE IMPERIAL YELLOW-ENAMELLED INCISED ‘CRANE AND PINE’ DISH
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The dish is finely incised to the central roundel with a pair of cranes standing amidst lingzhi and rocks below a pine tree. The reverse is decorated with five auspicious bats in flight amongst ruyi-shaped clouds.
5 1⁄4 in (13.3 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Acquired in 1995

Literature

Robert Jacobsen, Ye Peilan and Julian Thompson: Imperial Perfection.The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors, Kangxi - Yongzheng - Qianlong, Hong Kong, 2004, pp. 236, no. 93

Exhibited

On loan to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1998 - 2020

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Lot Essay

Imperial yellow-enamelled dishes of this design are very rare and only very few examples have been published. A very similar dish in shape, design and size, also from the Yongzheng period, was sold at Sotheby’s New York, 21 March 2018, lot 530. Another example was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 17 May 1988, lot 77.

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