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

Details

TWO SMALL UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND ENAMELLED 'DRAGON’ DISHES
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
Each dish is decorated on the interior with two five-clawed dragons chasing a flaming pearl, one in green and aubergine enamels, the other in underglaze blue. The exterior is decorated with four cranes in flight interspersed with scrolling clouds.
4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26 April 1999, lot 686

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Lot Essay

A pair of similar dishes was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 17 May 1988, lot 95. Compare also a pair of dishes included in the Hong Kong O.C.S. exhibition of Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, 1977, Catalogue no. 35, with Kangxi reign marks and the same decoration on a yellow ground; also the Ming prototype illustrated by Geng Baochang, Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, Mingdai Bufen, p. 140, fig. 147, with a Wanli reign mark and a yellow ground.

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