AN UNUSUAL PALE AUBERGINE-GLAZED SAUCER DISH

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AN UNUSUAL PALE AUBERGINE-GLAZED SAUCER DISH
YONGZHENG MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

The exterior incised with a band of continuous leafy scroll looping around to enclose ten pomegranates, within plain borders, covered by a pale aubergine glaze repeated on the interior, repaired--8 1/8 in. (20.7cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A pale aubergine dish of this pattern but of smaller size is in the Brian S. McElney Collectiion, included in the exhibition, Porcelain of the High Qing, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Vancouver, B.C., 1983, Catalogue no. 55, and another in the Percival David Foundation is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, 1982, vol. 6, no. 254. Compare, also, a pair included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition, An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1980, Catalogue no. 120

In his discussion of a pair of aubergine-glazed dishes incised with the ba jixiang, in the Baur Collection, Catalogue, vol. III, no. A 476, 477, John Ayers notes that, "purple-brown" glazed wares, both plain and with incised designs, are mentioned in the "Yung Cheng List" of porcelains supplied to the Court