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

Reverse-decorated blue and white dishes dating to the Yongzheng period simulate previous examples from the Ming Dynasty. A Xuande example is in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, published in the Special Exhibition of Ming Xuande Ceramics, Taipei, 1980, no. 82. Another one is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, inventory no. OA1968,4-22.31. Several Yongzheng dishes similar to the current dish are known, including 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; one previously in the Bulgari Collection in Rome, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3570; and another one sold in these rooms, 14 May 2013, lot 189.