A RARE BLUE AND WHITE RESERVE-DECORATED DISH

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE RESERVE-DECORATED DISH
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Decorated in the center and the sides of the interior and exterior with blossoming branches of gardenia, the thin veins of the flowers and leaves executed in slip, all reserved on a finely mottled powder-blue ground within narrow white borders
13in. (33cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A similar dish in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is illustrated by Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, revised edition, p. 246, no. 248; another from the Tokyo National Museum is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics Kodansha Series, vol.1, fig.160; a pair is illustrated by Gullard, Chinese Porcelain, vol. II, nos. 665 and 666; a last dish from the collection of Edward Kennedy sold in our New York Rooms, 2 December 1989, lot 370.

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