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A RARE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND YELLOW-ENAMELLED
‘LOTUS BOUQUET’ CHARGER

MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG

清雍正 黃地青花一把蓮盤
《大清雍正年製》款

rising from a short tapered foot to a lipped rim, painted in
various shades of cobalt blue against a bright yellow ground,
the interior with a beribboned bouquet of lotus and other
water plants, encircled by a composite floral scroll, all below
a classic scroll border, the exterior similarly decorated with a
slightly different composite floral scroll, between key-fret and
classic scroll bands, the base enamelled yellow and inscribed
in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark within a
double circle reserved on white, wood stand
39.6 cm, 15½ in.

HK$ 600,000-800,000
US$ 77,000-103,000

Both the lotus-bouquet design of this dish and the yellow and Compare also three smaller related examples, one illustrated
blue colour scheme are borrowed from early Ming prototypes in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics. The Koger Collection,
that were developed at the Jingdezhen imperial kilns in the London, 1985, pl. 122; two from the collection of Edward T.
Yongle and Xuande periods. The combination is, however, not Chow, sold in these rooms, 19th May 1981, lots 583 and 584,
known from the Ming period. the latter also from the collection or Sir Quo-Wei Lee, more
recently sold in these rooms, 3rd October 2018, lot 108.
In the Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns this design was revived
and produced in various dimensions, the present dish being For the blue and white Yongle prototypes see two dishes from
of the largest size, of which only three others appear to have the Meiyintang collection, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese
been sold at auction, one in our London rooms, 2nd March Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010,
1971, lot 190; another at Christie’s London, 10th July 1978, vol. 2, nos 665 and 666.
lot 47; and a third sold at Christie’s New York, 2nd December
1986, lot 206 and more recently in these rooms, 7th April
2011, lot 74, from the Meiyintang collection.

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