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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
Exuding understated elegance characteristic of the Yongzheng
A PAIR OF CLAIR-DE-LUNE GLAZED SAUCER period, the current pair of dishes is covered in a delicate
DISHES pale blue clair-de-lune glaze inspired by Song dynasty ru and
MARKS AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG celadon ware. Known in the West by the nineteenth-century
French connoisseurs’ term clair-de-lune (‘moon light’), and in
each delicately potted with shallow rounded sides and raised China as tianlan (‘sky blue’), it was one of the most successful
on a slightly tapering foot, covered overall save for the footring monochrome glazes created in Jingdezhen during the
with a soft bluish green glaze, the base inscribed with a six- Kangxi reign and reserved exclusively for imperial porcelains,
character reign mark in underglaze blue remaining popular throughout the Qing dynasty.
11.5 cm, 4½ in. A pair of closely related dishes from the Zhuyuetang
Collection was included in the exhibition A Millennium of
PROVENANCE Monochromes from the Great Tang to the High Qing. The
Bluett & Sons, London (label on one of the pair). Baur and Zhuyuetang Collections, Baur Foundation, Geneva,
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc., New York, 20th August 1997. 2018, cat. no. 88; a dish in the Nanjing Museum is published
in The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty,
HK$ 400,000-600,000 Shanghai, 2003, p. 208; and another pair from the collection
US$ 52,000-77,500 of Sir Percival David and now in the British Museum, London,
included in Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Qing Monochrome
Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London,
1989, no. B560-1.
清雍正 天藍釉盤一對

《大清雍正年製》款
來源：
Bluett & Sons，倫敦（其一底部標籤）
Ralph M. Chait Galleries Inc.，紐約，1997年8月20日

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