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911 A RARE POWDER-BLUE-GLAZED 清雍正ǭằ藍釉菊≓盤ǭ雙圈六字楷書款
‘CHRYSANTHEMUM’ DISH
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE Ϝ源
WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735) +VMJBO (BO[֖儷Ⅷ藏
洛杉╜
The dish has rounded sides that are molded as chrysanthemum )BSPME $BSUFSⅧ藏
阿‰֬克基
新墨西ড়州
petals rising from the foot ring with corresponding notches to the 藍理捷
紐約
編號
scalloped rim. It is covered on the interior and exterior with
a speckled, powder-blue glaze.
7 in. (17.8 cm.) diam., cloth box
$200,000-300,000
PROVENANCE:
Mr. and Mrs. Julian Ganz Collection, Los Angeles.
Harold Carter Collection, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4679.

Chrysanthemum-form porcelain dishes, reviving a Song dynasty The decree further mentions “forty pieces to be fired of every
lacquer shape, were produced in twelve different colors during type according to the samples.” A rare complete set of Yongzheng
the Yongzheng period. A number of chrysanthemum-shaped chrysanthemum dishes in the twelve different colors is illustrated
dishes with Yongzheng marks are in the Beijing Palace Museum in Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong: Qing Porcelain from the Palace
Collection and illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 316, no. 145.
the Palace Museum - 37- Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999,
pl. 257. Six are illustrated by Feng Xianming, Wenwu, 1984, p. 37, A similar powder-blue-glazed Yongzheng chrysanthemum dish
no. 10, where the author noted that a decree issued in the eleventh is illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang
year of Yongzheng (corresponding to 1733) instructed Nian Xiyao, Collection, London, 1994, Vol II, p. 196, no. 847. Another pair of
Minister of the Imperial Household, to send “the twelve colours Yongzheng powder-blue-glazed dishes in the Museum of Fine
of chrysanthemum dishes, one of each colour, for the inspection of Arts, Boston, is illustrated in The World’s Great Collections. Oriental
the permanent guardian of the treasury and chief eunuch Samuha.” Ceramics, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, pl. 264.

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