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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JAMES E. BREECE, III
                 1837
                 A VERY RARE PAIR OF CELADON-GLAZED 'LINGZHI'
                 DISHES
                 YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE
                 BLUE WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-
                 1735)
                 Each dish is thinly potted with rounded sides, and incised on the
                 interior with a roundel enclosing four lingzhi borne on a scrolling stem,
                 repeated as a frieze on the exterior, all under a glaze of attractive, soft
                 sea-green tone that stops at the white rim and also covers the base.
                 4¬ in. (11.7 cm.) diam.                    (2)

                 $45,000-55,000
                 PROVENANCE:
                 Gump's, San Francisco, by repute.
                 Collection of Andrew N. Jergens (1881-1967), Cincinnati, Ohio.
                 The lingzhi fungus is a popular motif in Chinese art, signifying
                 longevity. Considered the food of the immortals, it is also a wish-
                 granting symbol whose form is related to the ruyi scepter. A similar   (reverse of one)
                 Yongzheng-marked dish is illustrated by I. L. Legeza in Malcolm
                 MacDonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics in the Gulbenkian Museum
                 of Oriental Art and Archaeology School of Oriental Studies University of
                 Durham, London, 1972, pl. XXXVII, no. 115. See, also, the Yongzheng-
                 marked celadon-glazed dish of comparable size with similar lingzhi
                 design on the exterior, but the interior and base left white, sold in
                 Marchant – Fifty Qing Imperial Porcelains, Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 11
                 July 2020, lot 3101.

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