UNDERGLAZE-BLUE YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-35)

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A FINE PAIR OF DOUCAI 'DRAGON' SAUCERS
UNDERGLAZE-BLUE YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-35)
Each with shallow rounded sides, the interiors finely enamelled with a five-clawed striding dragon amidst flames and clouds chasing a flaming pearl, below four equidistant polychrome clouds in the wells, the exteriors with small clouds and flames above a band of breaking waves around the bases
4½ in. (11.4 cm.) diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

A slightly larger Yongzheng dish of this pattern is illustrated in The Wonders of the Potter's Palette: Qing Ceramics from the Collecton of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1984, no. 45. See, also, a pair of Yongzheng dishes of this size and pattern illustrated in Sotheby's Hong Kong: Twenty Years, Hong Kong, 1993, p.199, no.271, sold April 1991, lot 120A

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