A PAIR OF SMALL FAMILLE ROSE SAUCER DISHES

QINGYITANG THREE-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE, YONGZHENG/JIAQING PERIOD (1723-1820)

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A PAIR OF SMALL FAMILLE ROSE SAUCER DISHES
QINGYITANG THREE-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE, YONGZHENG/JIAQING PERIOD (1723-1820)
Each has rounded sides that are raised on a tapering ring foot and rise to a slightly everted rim. Each interior is decorated in famille rose with a grasshopper shown amidst morning glory on one and a flowering vine on the other, below a blue scroll border at the rim. The blue-glazed exterior is decorated with two gold bats suspending a peach.
3 5/8 in. (9.3 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box (2)

Provenance

J.J. Lally & Co., New York.
T. Edo Inouye & Son, Tokyo, 2009.

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Lot Essay

The hall mark, Qingyitang, is more usually seen in a four-character version, Qingyitang zhi, and has been variously translated. M. Wilson translates it as 'Hall of Appropriate Felicity', in Rare Marks on Chinese Ceramics, London, 1998, pp. 120-21, no. 50, where the four-character mark is seen on a dish decorated in famille rose enamels with a mille fleurs design. It has also been translated as 'Hall of Blessings and Correctness', and has been associated with porcelains ranging in date from the Yongzheng to Jiaqing periods.

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