A SMALL DOUCAI SAUCER DISH

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

Decorated on the interior with four stylized blossoms in iron red encircling a central bloom, each framed by finely penciled tendrils in underglaze blue with green-glazed leaves, within double line borders, with a similar frieze of eight blossoms on the exterior, small glaze chip to rim--4 3/8 in. (11.2cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

This dish is an unusually small example of this pattern. Larger examples are in the Chang Foundation collection, illustrated by James Spencer, Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, 1990, no. 135 (27.1 cm.); another (27 cm.) illustrated by Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, no. 210; a pair (20.4 cm.) included in the exhibition of Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Hong Kong, 1973, Catalogue no. 88; and another pair illustrated by W. G. Gulland, Chinese Porcelain, vol. II, nos. 652 and 653. A dish of slightly larger size (15.5 cm.) from the collection of Paul and Helen Bernat was sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, November 15, 1988, lot 16