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

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A VERY RARE FAMILLE-ROSE-DECORATED DOUCAI 'PEACH' DISH
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
With rounded sides, the center of the interior finely decorated in a doucai palette with a peach tree bearing nine ripe fruit highlighted in delicate shades of pink and green enamel, surrounded by lingzhi and grass, and an ornamental rock in the foreground, the exterior with eight cranes in flight, their polls highlighted in iron red, all within double-line borders
7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

Yongzheng-marked doucai dishes of this pattern appear to be extremely rare. Compare with three others; one in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, included in the exhibition, Joined Colors, Ceramics from Collectors in the Min Chiu Society, Hong Kong, 1993, no. 61; one from the Goldschmidt Collection, sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 13 November 1990, lot 36; and another illustrated by R. Schmidt et al., Chinesische Keramik, pl. 122(d) where a fourth is recorded in Dresden. See, also, the almost identical dish of closely related size (18.3 cm.), sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 27 October 2003, lot 657.

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