A FINE PAIR OF SMALL LEMON-YELLOW-ENAMELLED SAUCERS

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A FINE PAIR OF SMALL LEMON-YELLOW-ENAMELLED SAUCERS
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

Each finely and thinly potted with flat bases rising to shallow rounded sides from a short foot, all under a slightly crackled enamel of brilliant lemon yellow tone, the bases white
3 in. (7.8 cm.) diam., box (2)

Provenance

The Goldschmidt Collection, sold in Hong Kong, 13 November 1990, lot 67.

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, pl. 29.

Lot Essay

Cf. similar Yongzheng-marked dishes of this size and colour including a pair in the Percival David Foundation, London, illustrated in the Catalogue, section 6, nos. B543-3; a pair in the Baur collection, illustrated in the Catalogue, vol. III, nos. A489-492; a pair illustrated in An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, col. pl. 127; and another pair from the Paul and Helen Bernat collection sold in Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, lot 60.

(US$11,000-13,000)

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