A RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI SAUCER DISHES

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A RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI SAUCER DISHES
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

With shallow, rounded sides flaring to a slightly everted rim, the interior decorated with a central lotus blossom surrounded by four similar blossoms borne on enclosing underglaze blue stems with scrolling tendrils and green leaves forming a densely patterned medallion and repeated in a frieze of eight blossoms around the exterior below a narrow border of C-scrolls and dots, all in iron-red, yellow and green glaze and underglaze blue of bright tone within double, blue line borders
6 1/8in. (15.5cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

Stephen Junkunc, III

Lot Essay

It is unusual to find a dish of this pattern of such small size. An example was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, The Paul and Helen Bernat Collection of Important Qing Imperial Porcelain and Works of Art, November 15, 1988, lot 16

Larger examples are in the Chang Foundation Collection, illustrated by James Spencer, Selected Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1990, no. 134 (27.1cm.); another (27cm.) illustrated by Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, no. 210; a pair (20.4cm.) 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, London, 1918, nos. 652 and 653