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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT WEST COAST PRIVATE 清雍正 天藍釉撇口小盤
COLLECTION
《大清雍正年製》款
A FINE CLAIR-DE-LUNE-GLAZED SAUCER DISH,
MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG 來源：
13.2 cm 香港蘇富比1975年11月17日，編號130（一對之一）
埃斯卡納齊，倫敦，1975年11月25日，編號6776（一
PROVENANCE 對之一）
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 17th November 1975, lot 130 (one of 倫敦蘇富比2012年11月7日，編號272（一對之一） Mark
a pair). 馬錢特，倫敦
Eskenazi Ltd, London, 25th November 1975, no. 6776 (one
of a pair). 紐約佳士得2017年9月14日，編號743
Sotheby's London, 7th November 2012, lot 272 (one of a 展覽：
pair). 《Imperial Chinese Porcelain, Ceramics and Works of
Marchant, London.
Christie's New York, 14th September 2017, lot 743. Art》，馬錢特，倫敦，2013年，編號27（一對之一）
EXHIBITED
Imperial Chinese Porcelain, Ceramics and Works of Art,
Marchant, London, 2013, cat. no. 27 (one of a pair).
HK$ 500,000-700,000
US$ 64,000-89,500
Exuding understated elegance characteristic of the Yong-
zheng period, the present dish is covered in a luminous clair-
de-lune glaze inspired by the celebrated Ru wares of the Song
dynasty. This high-fired glaze, with a cobalt content of about
1%, was first produced by the imperial kilns in Jingdezhen
during the Kangxi Emperor’s reign. Known in the West by the
nineteenth-century French connoisseurs’ term clair-de-lune
(‘moon light’), and in China as tianlan (‘sky blue’), it was
one of the most successful monochrome glazes created in
Jingdezhen during the Kangxi reign and reserved exclusively
for imperial porcelains, remaining popular throughout the
Qing dynasty.
It is rare to find a pair of Yongzheng reign-marked claire-
de-lune dishes. Compare a pair of similar dishes from the
Zhuyuetang Collection, included in the exhibition Shimmer-
ing Colours. Monochromes of the Yuan to Qing Periods: The
Zhuyuetang Collection, Art Museum, Chinese University of
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2005, cat. no. 72; and another pair
from the Sir Percival David Collection and now in the British
Museum, London, is included in Illustrated Catalogue of Ming
and Qing Monochrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation
of Chinese Art, London, 1989, no. B560-1. The pair to this dish
was sold in these rooms, 29th April 2022, lot 3501.

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