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

The centre is decorated with a medallion enclosing a iron-red lotus bloom surrounded by four similar
blossoms on intertwined underglaze blue leafy stems with scrolling tendrils. The exterior is decorated with
a similar repeated frieze of eight lotus all below a c-scroll interspersed with dots.
6Ω in. (16.5 cm.) diam.

£10,000-15,000 $13,000-19,000
€12,000-17,000

Yongzheng-marked dishes of this pattern were made in graduated sizes, some with more elaborate lotus
blossoms and the leaves highlighted in green enamel. A similar dish to the current lot, of an identical
size, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 November 2011, lot 2932.

Dishes smaller than the current lot include a pair (15.5 cm.) from the collection of Stephen Junkunc III,
sold at Christie’s New York, 21 September 1995, lot 258; and an even smaller pair (11.4 cm.) in the Wang
Xing Lou Collection is illustrated in Imperial Porcelain, The Palace Porcelain of Three Emperors: Kangxi -
Yongzheng - Qianlong, Hong Kong 2004, no. 30.

Larger dishes (20 cm.) are found in illustrated in Ch’ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection,
Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1973, no. 88. Even larger dishes are in the Chang Foundation
Collection, illustrated by J. Spencer in Selected Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1990, no.
134; one illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, p. 355, no. 1067; one illustrated by J.
Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1980, no. 210.

Compare with a pair of dishes were sold at Christie’s New York, 17 March 2017, lot 1215.

清雍正 鬥彩纏枝連花紋盤 雙圈六字楷書款

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