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

The design appearing on the backs of this elegant pair of dishes appears to have its origin in doucai dishes of the preceding Kangxi period (1662-1722). See, for example, the Kangxi-marked doucai dish with similar decoration on the back, but with decoration on the interior of a central medallion of a peach and crane superimposed over a shou character below shou medallions and peaches in the cavetto, formerly in the Grandidier Collection and now in the collection of the Musée Guimet, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The Word’s Great Collections, vol. 7, Tokyo, 1981, col. Pl. 86. Another Kangxi-marked dish of this type, with decoration on the interior, was sold at Christie’s New York, 16 September 2011, lot 1540.