A DOUCAI SAUCER DISH

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A DOUCAI SAUCER DISH
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

The center finely enameled with a double lotus blossom in iron-red surrounded by conjoined linear, foliate motifs forming stylized ruyi heads, all within a double blue-line border repeated in a single line below the rim, the exterior decorated with a frieze of detached variations on the elements of the interior design, all within further blue-line borders, kiln fault--8¼in. (20.9cm) diam., box

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Lot Essay

It is unusual to find a dish of this pattern in this size, however, a similarly decorated dish from the Yokogawa Collection and now in the Tokyo National Museum is illustrated in Old Oriental Ceramics, Tokyo, 1953, no. 320. Other smaller dishes have been included in the exhibition, Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Hong Kong, 1973, Catalogue, no. 86, and in the Hong Kong O.C.S. exhibition, Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, 1977, Catalogue, no. 64. Compare, also, the smaller dish in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain, pl. 92 and another in the Umezawa Kinenkan Museum, illustrated in Toji Taikei, no. 46, pls. 61 and 62