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Lot Essay
The pair to the present dish was given by Gulland to the Victoria and Albert Museum and is illustrated by J. Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, no. 210.
A very similar Yongzheng-marked doucai dish of this unusual design from the Chang Foundation Collection is illustrated by J. Spencer in Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1990, p. 308, no. 135; another of similar size is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, p. 355, no. 1067; and one is illustrated in Chinese Arts of the Ming and Ch'ing Periods, Tokyo National Museum, 1963, no. 413. A pair of smaller (11.4 cm.) Yongzheng- marked dishes from the Wang Xing Lou Collection is illustrated in Imperial Perfection, The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors: Kangxi - Yongzheng - Qianlong, Hong Kong, 2004, pp. 92-3, no. 30.
Another pair of smaller (15.5 cm.) Yongzheng-marked dishes from the collection of Stephen Junkunc III was sold in these rooms, 21 September 1995, lot 258.
A very similar Yongzheng-marked doucai dish of this unusual design from the Chang Foundation Collection is illustrated by J. Spencer in Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1990, p. 308, no. 135; another of similar size is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, p. 355, no. 1067; and one is illustrated in Chinese Arts of the Ming and Ch'ing Periods, Tokyo National Museum, 1963, no. 413. A pair of smaller (11.4 cm.) Yongzheng- marked dishes from the Wang Xing Lou Collection is illustrated in Imperial Perfection, The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors: Kangxi - Yongzheng - Qianlong, Hong Kong, 2004, pp. 92-3, no. 30.
Another pair of smaller (15.5 cm.) Yongzheng-marked dishes from the collection of Stephen Junkunc III was sold in these rooms, 21 September 1995, lot 258.