Lot 236
236
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MRS. JAMES ALSDORF
AN APPLE-GREEN-GLAZED INCISED SAUCER DISH

Details
AN APPLE-GREEN-GLAZED INCISED SAUCER DISH
YONGZHENG MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

The shallow, rounded sides incised on the exterior with the bajixiang supported by eight lotus blossoms borne on a leafy, scrolling tendril, between narrow grooved bands above and encircling the foot, covered inside and out with an apple-green glaze of bright tone, hair crack--6¼ in. (15.8cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

Similarly decorated dishes with Yongzheng marks are in the Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the exhibition of Ch'ing Dynasty Monochrome Porcelain, 1981, no. 43, p. 97; a pair of larger size (20.6cm.) in the Percival David Foundation, Catalogue, Section 6, B505-6, Pl. X; and of smaller size (11.3cm.) in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection included in the Hong Kong Museum of Art exhibition, 1987, Catalogue, Part I, no. 152