YONGZHENG UNDERGLAZE-BLUE SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A PAIR OF DOUCAI 'LOTUS' DISHES
YONGZHENG UNDERGLAZE-BLUE SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
Each with gently rounded sides rising from a short foot, the interior finely enamelled with a medallion of an iron-red stylised lotus encircled by radiating openwork ruyi-heads and leafy tendrils, the exterior decorated with three further iron-red stylised lotus sprays interspersed with formalized ruyi and foliate motifs, all within blue double-line borders
6¼ in. (15.9 cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

Property from an Important Asian Collection.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 23 May 1978, lot 248.

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Lot Essay

A pair of similar dishes of smaller size and pattern from the Edward T. Chow Collection, illustrated in Kuan-Yao and Min-Yao, Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, X111, 1959, pl. V. fig 1, was sold in Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 556. A similarly decorated pair of dishes was also sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 1 June 2011, lot 3521.
Another similar example is illustrated by L.A. Cort and J. Stuart, Joined Colors - Decoration and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain, 1993, p. 129, no. 65.

See also a comparable but larger dish in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, pl. 92.

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