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

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A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE 'PEACH' DISH
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
With rounded sides flaring at the slightly everted rim, the center painted in fifteenth-century style with simulated 'heaping and piling' with a gnarled branch bearing nine peaches, the exterior with a frieze of convolvulus scroll bearing nine flowers and buds, all within double line borders
10 5/8 in. (26.9 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, 8 November 1980, lot 83.

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Lot Essay

While a number of Qianlong examples of this design have been published and sold at auction, Yongzheng blue and white examples, such as the present dish, appear to be very rare. A similar Yongzheng example of comparable size is in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, illustrated by Liu Liang-yu, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 5, Taipei, 1991, p. 95. Compare, also, a yellow-ground blue and white dish in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1987, no. 247.

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