QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

A pair of dishes of the same design from the T. Y. Chao Collection was included in the exhibition, Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1973, no. 45,and later sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 19 March 1987, lot 316. Additional examples include one in the National Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book II, Hong Kong, 1968, pl. 29; one in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1982, no. 247; another from the collection of Harry Hellebronth illustrated by U. Wiesner in the catalogue for the exhibition, Chinesische Keramik, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Köln, 1988, pp. 142-3, no.100; and the example sold at Sotheby’s New York, 22 September 2021, lot 72. A blue and white example, without the yellow enamel, is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, London, 1985, no. 96. See, also, the pair sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, The Imperial Sale, 30 May 2006, lot 1245.