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FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A CELADON-GLAZED ‘LINGZHI’ SAUCER DISH
Yongzheng six-character mark and of the period
Finely potted with rounded sides, incised on the interior with a
roundel of four lingzhi fungus and stylized bamboo sprays, decorated
on the exterior with a continuous frieze of the same design, the
delicate celadon glaze covers front and back of the dish including
the base, Yongzheng six-character mark in underglaze-blue within
double circle at base.
4 5/8in (11.7cm) diam
$40,000 - 60,000

清雍正 豆青釉靈芝劃花紋小盤 《大清雍正年製》雙圈款

Provenance
Private North American Collection, prior to 1970

出處:
北美私人收藏，1970 年以前入藏

The lingzhi fungus is rich in metaphors in Chinese art, symbolizing
longevity and good fortune. When placing lingzhi together bamboo
sprays, as on the present dish, it carries the message of wishing the
recipient a happy birthday (zhu shou), since bamboo (zhu) is a pun for
‘congratulations’ and ‘wishes’ and the lingzhi implies long life (shou).

Compare the Yongzheng-marked dish of similar design in the
collection of the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology,
University of Durham, illustrated in A Descriptive and Illustrated
Catalogue of the Malcom MacDonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics,
London, 1972, pl. XXXVIII, no. 115. Another is illustrated by P. Lam,
Shimmering Colours - Monochromes of the Yuan to Qing Periods: The
Zhuyuetang Collection, Hong Kong, 2005, p. 157, no. 86.

See a single dish sold at Christie’s New York, 23 March 2018, lot 782.

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