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

No other dishes of this very small size appear to have been published. Compare with slightly larger pairs of yellow-enamelled saucer-dishes in the S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, vol. II, p. 216, nos. 140 and 141; a pair in the Percival David Foundation, London, illustrated by M. Medley in Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Ch'ing Monochrome in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1973, nos. B543-4; another pair in the Baur Collection, illustrated by J. Ayers,Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, pl. 130; a pair illustrated in An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, col. pl. 127.

Comparable pairs sold at auction, also of a larger size include: a pair from the Paul and Helen Bernat Collection sold in Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, lot 60; a pair from the E.T. Hall collection sold at Christie's London, 7 June 2004, lot 269; a pair from the Jingguantang and Goldschmidt Collection sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 3 November 1996, lot 559; and a further pair sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 October 2014.