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

The present dish is very rare, with masterfully executed details of a five-clawed dragon and phoenixes. The dish can be compared to examples in museums, including the virtually identical dish in the Victoria & Albert Museum donated by Mrs E. H. Lane in memory of Mrs Ada Lane, accession no. C.45-1928, and another in the Tsui Museum of Art, illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics IV, Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 126. A ‘dragon’ dish of the same design was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Marchant – Fifty Qing Imperial Porcelains, 11 July 2020, lot 3114. Another example was sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 28 November 2017, lot 20.