A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE YELLOW-GROUND DISH

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MRS. JAMES ALSDORF

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A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE YELLOW-GROUND DISH
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The centre painted with a bouquet of ribbon-tied lotus and water weeds, surrounded by a frieze of composite foliate scroll in the well and a band of classic scroll at the rim, repeated below a similar frieze on the exterior and a keyfret border just below the rim, all painted in rich cobalt-blue with simulated 'heaping and piling' reserved on an opaque lemon-yellow ground, the formal borders under a translucent pale-green glaze--8½in. (21.6cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

One of a pair of Yongzheng dishes of this size was included in the Kau Chi Society Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1981, Catalogue no. 155, and the pair was sold in our London Rooms, 10-13 December, 1982, lot 526. A larger Yongzheng example is illustrated by Ayers, Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, London, 1985, pl. 122. Another example was sold in our New York Rooms, 3 December 1992, lot 339

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