YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-35)

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a famille verte black-ground saucer
Yongzheng six-character mark within a double circle and of the period (1723-35)
With shallow rounded sides, enamelled around the exterior with an iron-red and blue lotus meander reserved on a black and green foliate ground, the pale green foot with classic scroll
5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

A similar dish from the Hong Kong Museum was included in their exhibition, The Wonder of the Potter's Palette, 1984, Catalogue, no. 52; one in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, pl. 23; another in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, Art and Crafts, vol. 3, 1988, no. 202; and a pair was included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition, An Anthology of Chinesse Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1980, Catalogue, no. 131. A pair was sold in our New York Rooms, 3 December 1992, lot 336 and a single example from the Paul and Helen Bernat Collection, was sold at auction in Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, Lot 23, formerly on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 10, fig. 263.

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