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VARIOUS PROPERTIES Dishes of this type appear to have been frst made during the Kangxi period
2156 (1662-1722), and one in the Percival David Foundation is illustrated in
A CAFE-AU-LAIT-GLAZED DISH Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great Collections, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1982, no.
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A 233. The eight-character mark on the base may be translated, ‘made for
DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735) the Zhonghe Pavilion in the renzi year of Kangxi’, corresponding to 1672.
Yongzheng-marked examples are represented by one illustrated in Old
The dish has rounded sides that fare towards the slightly everted rim Oriental Ceramics Donated by Mr. Yokogawa, Tokyo National Museum,
and are encircled by two bow-string bands, and is covered inside and 1953, pl. 389; one included in the exhibition, Chinese Antiquities from the
out with a glaze of rich cafe-au-lait color. Brian S. McElney Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1987, no. 100;
6¬ in. (17 cm.) diam., box and another from the T. Y. Chao Collection included in the exhibition,
Ch’ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, 1973, no. 35. Another
$20,000-30,000 in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is illustrated by He Li in Chinese
Ceramics, New York, 1996, p. 285, no. 173.
PROVENANCE:
清雍正 醬釉盤 雙圈六字楷書款
Goldschlager Collection, no. 37.
Christie’s London, 4-5 June 1973, lot 195.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 1 May 2001, lot 597.

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