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

Reverse-decorated blue and white dishes from the Yongzheng period were modelled on earlier prototypes from the Ming Dynasty. See a Xuande example published in the Special Exhibition of Ming Xuande Ceramics, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1980, no. 82; and another one currently in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, inventory no. OA1968,4-22.31. Yongzheng dishes with a similar design to the current dish include one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 248; one published by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. 2, no. 843, later sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 7 April 2011, lot 75; and another one previously in the Bulgari Collection in Rome, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3570.