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Lot Essay
This exquisite pair of dishes appears to be unique, and no other dish of this translucent emerald-green colour and date is known to be published.
The present pair of dishes can best be compared to an equally rare pair of emerald-green glazed bowls, bearing Yongzheng marks, from the British Rail Pension Fund, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 16 May 1989, lot 62. As with the current pair of dishes, the pair of bowls appears to be unique. There is also a similarly coloured bowl with incised decoration on the exterior with a Yongzheng six character mark in underglaze blue from the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in Elegant Form and Harmonious Decoration - Four Dynasties of Jingdezhen Porcelain, London, 1992, p. 135, no. 153. There are also in the same collection two small green-glazed dishes with incised Eight Buddhist Emblems on the exterior (inv. B505 & B506), one of which is published in Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Qing Monochrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, Revised Edition, London, 1989, Pl. X.
The present pair of dishes can best be compared to an equally rare pair of emerald-green glazed bowls, bearing Yongzheng marks, from the British Rail Pension Fund, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 16 May 1989, lot 62. As with the current pair of dishes, the pair of bowls appears to be unique. There is also a similarly coloured bowl with incised decoration on the exterior with a Yongzheng six character mark in underglaze blue from the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in Elegant Form and Harmonious Decoration - Four Dynasties of Jingdezhen Porcelain, London, 1992, p. 135, no. 153. There are also in the same collection two small green-glazed dishes with incised Eight Buddhist Emblems on the exterior (inv. B505 & B506), one of which is published in Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Qing Monochrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, Revised Edition, London, 1989, Pl. X.