A FINE AND RARE REVERSE-DECORATED BLUE-GROUND DISH

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A FINE AND RARE REVERSE-DECORATED BLUE-GROUND DISH
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Decorated on both sides with white meandering branches of mallow-like floral sprays reserved against the deep powder-blue ground and detailed with fine slip-trailing, with fine lines encircling the central floral medallion and bordering the rim on the interior and exterior (small chip to inner foot rim)
13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

An identical dish in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is illustrated by Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, revised edition, p. 246, no. 248; another was included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition, Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, 1992, Catalogue, no. 133. Cf. other similar dishes, one from the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 1, fig. 160; a pair is illustrated by Gullard, Chinese Porcelain, vol. II, nos. 665 and 666; a dish from the collection of Edward Kennedy sold in our New York Rooms, 2 December 1989, lot 370; and a dish sold in these Rooms, 28 April 1996, lot 54.

(US$32,000-50,000)

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