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A RARE MOLDED LEMON-YELLOW-ENAMELED Chang Foundation published in Zhongguo lidai taoqi xuanji
‘LOTUS’ DISH [Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties],
MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG Taipei, 1990, pl. 129; two in the Baur Collection, Geneva,
most recently exhibited and published in Mille ans de
finely molded as a lotus bloom, a scalloped seed pod at the Monochromes: Vaisselle Sacrée et Profane des Empereurs
center with two registers of overlapping petals radiating de Chine, Les Collections Baur et Zhuyeutang / A Millennium
across the base and cavetto to form a gently contoured of Monochromes: From the Great Tang to the High Qing,
rim, the exterior similarly molded as a series of undulating the Baur and the Zhuyuetang Collections, Baur Foundation
petals, all under a vibrant opaque lemon-yellow enamel, the Museum of Far Eastern Art, Geneva, 2018, cat. nos 173a and
recessed base white and with a six-character mark within a 173b; one in the Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo (coll. no.
double circle in underglaze blue TG-1074); and one from the Mrs. M. Constantinidi Collection
Diameter 11½ in., 29.2 cm sold in our London rooms, 8th July 1947, lot 21, and
purchased by the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (acc. no.
PROVENANCE C.7-1947), where it remains today. Another dish of this type,
Collection of the Forbes, The Lords Clinton, Bowes-Lyon, and but from the Joshua Collection, sold two years earlier in our
Somervell families, all of Fettercairn House, Kincardineshire. London rooms, 20th July 1945, lot 76. More recently, two
Marchant, London, 24th March 2000. dishes of this type were sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30th
The present dish belongs to a small group of dishes with October 2001, lots 802 and 803; the former was sold again
the same enameling and form produced at the Yongzheng in the same rooms, 6th July 2003, lot 579.
Imperial kilns. Rather than being glazed in the traditional
manner, these wares were coated entirely in an overglaze $ 80,000-120,000
enamel involving lead antimonate and zinc, that was fired at a
low temperature to achieve this distinctive lemon-yellow color.
Several examples of such dishes are preserved in 清雍正 檸檬黃釉蓮花式盤
major collections, including one from the Percival David 《大清雍正年製》款
Foundation, now in the British Museum, London (acc. no.
PDF,A.521), and published in For the Imperial Court: Qing 來源：
Porcelain from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 福布斯家族，克林頓男爵，鮑斯-里昂、薩莫維爾家
New York, 1997, fig. 8; one in the collection of the National 族，費特凱恩莊園收藏，金卡丁郡
Palace Museum, Taipei, exhibited and published in Catalogue
of a Special Exhibition of Ch’ing Dynasty Monochrome 馬錢特，倫敦，2000年3月24日
Porcelains in the National Palace Museum, National Palace
Museum, Taipei, 1981, cat. no. 27; one in the collection of the

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