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

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A DOUCAI 'BIRTHDAY' SAUCER DISH
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The dish has shallow rounded sides, and is finely painted in the interior with five iron-red bats (wufu) flying around a fruiting peach tree growing from the side of a cliff that overhangs a blue rock rising from breaking green waves. The exterior is painted with pairs of bats alternating with four fruiting branches, each incorporating a shou medallion, all within double blue line borders.
6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

A similar Yongzheng dish, of the same size, is illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1986, pl. 86. One in the Shanghai Museum of Art is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Selected Ceramics from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Hu, Hong Kong, 1989, pl. 48; and another is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Hong Kong, 1973, no. 87. See, also, the dish sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2006, lot 1433, and again at Christie's New York, 15 September 2011, lot 1548.

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