YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Similar aubergine-glazed saucer-dishes with incised pomegranate scrolls include an example in the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, Inaugural Exhibition - Chinese Ceramics, vol. 1, 1993, no. 203; and another sold at Christie's New York, 16 September 1999, lot 379. The design of the Eight Buddhist Emblems appear to be more common than that of scrolling pomegranates on 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 from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Qing Monochromes, Taipei, 1981, no. 45.