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

An aubergine-glazed saucer dish of similar size with the same pomegranate decoration is illustrated in the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, Inaugural Exhibition - Chinese Ceramics, vol. 1, 1993, no. 203. One was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 26 April 2004, lot 1088 and another in these rooms, 16 September 1999, lot 379. The design of the bajixiang appears to be more common than that of pomeranate scroll on aubergine-glazed dishes of this type. See, for example, the dish illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, pl. 318 [A476]; and another in the National Palace Museum, illustrated in Catalogue of Special Exhibition of Ch'ing Monochromes, Taiwan, 1981, no. 45.