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

Yongzheng-marked dishes of this pattern were made in graduated sizes. Examples of this large size include one illustrated in Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1973, no. 88. Dishes of a larger size (approximately 27.2 cm.) are in the Chang Foundation Collection, illustrated by J. Spencer in Selected Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1990, no. 134; one illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, p. 355, no. 1067; one illustrated by J. Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, no. 210; a pair illustrated by W. G. Gulland, Chinese Porcelain, Vol. II, 1918 ed., pls. 652-53; and a dish sold at Christie's New York, 22 March 2007, lot 349. Smaller examples (15.5 cm.) include a pair from the collection of Stephen Junkunc III, sold at Christie's New York, 21 September 1995, lot 258; and the smallest examples (11.4 cm.) include a pair in the Wang Xing Lou Collection illustrated in Imperial Porcelain, The Palace Porcelain of Three Emperors: Kangxi - Yongzheng - Qianlong, Hong Kong 2004, no. 30, and one sold at Christie's New York, 19-20 September 2013, lot 1312.