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2167 (mark)

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It is unusual to fnd a dish of this type with a Qianlong mark, but a
pair in the Zhuyetang Collection is illustrated in Shimmering Colours:
Monochromes of the Yuan to Qing Periods, Art Museum, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, 2005, p. 230, no. 153. See, also, the two dishes
of the same size sold at Christie’s New York, 29 March 2006, lot 459 and
19 September 2006, lot 380.

For a Kangxi precursor see the dish in the Percival David Foundation,
illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great Collections, vol. 6,
Tokyo, 1982, no. 233. The eight-character mark on the base may be
translated, ‘made for the Zhonghe Pavilion in the renzi year of Kangxi’,
corresponding to 1672. Yongzheng-marked examples are represented by
one illustrated in Old Oriental Ceramics Donated by Mr. Yokogawa, Tokyo
National Museum, 1953, pl. 389, and another included in the exhibition,
Chinese Antiquities from the Brian S. McElney Collection, Hong Kong
Museum of Art, 1987, no. 100.

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