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

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AN UNUSUAL DOUCAI DISH
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The dish is decorated on the interior with a roundel depicting immortals standing on iron-red clouds as they approach a pavilion surrounded by billowing clouds and set amidst rolling waves, with two cranes grasping arrows in their beaks in flight above. The exterior is decorated with bats in flight amidst rocks and waves beneath a band of scrolling clouds, all within double blue line borders.
8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm.) diam.

Provenance

The Collection of General Joseph W. Stilwell (1883-1946), acquired in the early twentieth century, and thence by descent within the family.

Lot Essay

A Yongzheng-marked doucai dish of this unusual pattern, but slightly smaller in size (20.6 cm.), is illustrated in Porcelains from the Tianjin Municipal Museum, Hong Kong, 1993, pls. 159 and 160. For similar dishes sold at auction, see the pair sold at Christie’s New York, 23 March 2012, lot 2034; the single example from the collection of Dr. James D. Thornton, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 November 2017, lot 2810; and another identical dish, also from the family collection of General Joseph W. Stilwell, sold at Christie's New York, 22 March 2018, lot 815.

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