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A RARE WHITE-GLAZED ‘CHRYSANTHEMUM’ DISH

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

The shallow, rounded sides are moulded as chrysanthemum petals rising from the foot
ring with corresponding notches. The dish is covered overall with a lustrous white glaze.
7 in. (17.7 cm.) diam., box

HK$1,200,000-1,800,000 US$160,000-230,000

PROVENANCE

Bluett & Sons, London
Sold at Christie’s New York, 25 March 2011, lot 1746

A number of chrysanthemum-shaped dishes with Yongzheng marks are in the Beijing Palace
Museum Collection and illustrated in Monochrome Porcelain, The Complete Collection of
Treasures of the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 257. Six are illustrated by
Feng Xianming, Wenwu, 1984, p. 37, no. 10, where the author noted that a decree issued in
the eleventh year of Yongzheng (corresponding to 1733) instructed Nian Xiyao, Minister of the
Imperial Household, to send ‘the twelve colours of chrysanthemum dishes, one of each colour,
for the inspection of the permanent guardian of the treasury and chief eunuch Samuha’. The
decree further mentions ‘forty pieces to be fired of every type according to the samples’. As
recorded by A. W. Hummel in Eminent Chinese of the Ch’ing Period, vol. I, pp. 588-590, Nian
Xiyao was appointed as a minister of the Imperial Household in 1726, and between 1726-1735 he
was in charge of the manufacture of porcelain as well as assuming the post of superintendent of
customs at Huaian in Jiangsu province.

Several other white-glazed Yongzheng-marked chrysanthemum dishes are published, for
example another dish in the Kempe Collection; a dish from the Robert Chang Collection sold at
Christie’s Hong Kong, Imperial Wares from the Robert Chang Collection, 2 November 1999, lot
502; and a single dish previously from the K. W. Woollcombe Boyce Collection, sold at Sotheby’s
Hong Kong, 24 May 1978, lot 185. A series of these dishes in five colours from the Lorant
Goldschlager Collection were sold at Christie’s London, 4 June 1973, lots 209 - 214 (lot 211 being
a pair of white-glazed dishes).

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來源
Bluett & Sons，倫敦
紐約佳士得，2011 年 3 月 25 日，拍品 1746 號

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