Lot 426
426
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A SMALL YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER DISH

Details
A SMALL YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER DISH
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

The interior decorated with a highly stylized foliate medallion comprised of bundled C-scroll fronds and lotus sprigs, repeated on the exterior along with foliate motifs incorporating ruyi heads or double gourds, all detached and separated by foliate arabesques and set between double line borders, all in shades of blue reserved on an opaque lemon-yellow ground
5 13/16in. (14.7cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Compare the larger blue and white Yongzheng-marked dish of this pattern illustrated in the Catalogue of the Porcelain of the National Palace Museum, Blue and White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book I, Hong Kong, 1968, pp. 94 and 95, pl. 15-15c