A FINE BLUE AND WHITE 'PEONY' DISH
PROPERTY FROM A FAR EASTERN COLLECTION
A FINE BLUE AND WHITE 'PEONY' DISH

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A FINE BLUE AND WHITE 'PEONY' DISH
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Naturalistically painted on the central medallion in delicate shades of blue with two butterflies in flight above leafy branches bearing three full peony blossoms growing from pierced rockwork, the exterior painted in similar style with chrysanthemum, hibiscus and other flowering shrubs growing from rocks, all within single and double line borders
8 1/4 in. (20.8 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

Previously sold in these Rooms, 2 November 1999, lot 608.

A Yongzheng dish of this design, from the author's collection, is illustrated by S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1971, pl. LXI; a pair from the collection of the T. Y. Chao Family Foundation was exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain, 1978, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 86; and another pair is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, pl. 764.

This pattern is also recorded in doucai enamels, as seen in the following lot of this catalogue. Cf. also the example from the Woodthorpe collection, included in the O. C. S. Exhibition of Enamelled Polychrome Porcelain of the Manchu Dynasty, London, 1951, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 99.

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