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

With a well-defined design of cresting waves under a subdued celadon glaze, examples of this shape and pattern are found in distinguished private and museum collections. A pair of near identical Yongzheng dishes to the present dish from the collection of Evelyn Annenberg Hall and formerly in the collection of Alice Boney was sold in Christie’s New York, 29 March 2006, lot 111. Another Yongzheng-marked celadon-glazed dish of a similar size (16.6 cm. diam.) and design from the collection of Mr. Cheung Ling was included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition, Monochrome Ceramics of Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1977, no. 72. For an identically decorated but white-glazed dish in the Hong Kong Museum of Art, see The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Hong Kong, 1984, p. 101, no. 59. See, also, a Yongzheng celadon-glazed dish carved with bats, a shou character, and a frieze of cresting waves on the exterior in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 27.131.3.