A RARE LARGE YELLOW-ENAMELED MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE DISH

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A RARE LARGE YELLOW-ENAMELED MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE DISH
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The interior painted in Ming style with simulated 'heaping and piling' with a central ribbon-tied 'lotus bouquet' below a frieze of composite foliate scroll and a narrow band of classic scroll at the rim repeated on the exterior below a further band of composite foliate scroll and a narrow band of key fret at the rim, the main areas of decoration reserved on a ground of lemon-yellow enamel and the interior and exterior borders covered with a blue-green glaze, the base surrounding the reign mark also covered in yellow enamel
15 3/8 in. (39 cm.) diam., stand

Provenance

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.

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Lot Essay

Compare two Qianlong-marked dishes of this pattern; one illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. 2, p. 133, no. 763; the other included in the exhibition, Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 9 June - 2 August 1992, p. 275, no. 142. Compare, also, a pair of smaller (8½ in. diam) Yongzheng-marked dishes, also of the same pattern, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 31 October 2000, lot 889.

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