Lot 339
339
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A MING-STYLE YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE DISH

Details
A MING-STYLE YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE DISH
YONGZHENG MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

Decorated in the center 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 cobalt-blue of rich tone with simulated 'heaping and piling' reserved on an opaque lemon-yellow ground, the formal borders under a glaze of translucent pale green color, minute glaze chips--8 3/8 in. (21.3cm.) diam.

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 Christie's London, December 10-13, 1982, lot 526. A larger Yongzheng example is illustrated by Ayers, Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, London, 1985, pl. 122