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5068 | Yongzheng Period,Qing Dynasty A PAIR OF CELADON-GLAZED WITH INCISED‘BAMBOO AND LINGZHI’PLATES

A PAIR OF CELADON-GLAZED WITH INCISED‘BAMBOO AND LINGZHI’PLATES

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Size: D11.6cm

Signed and dated: Yongzheng Period,Qing Dynasty

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Final Price: RMB 820,000

Illustrated
Regina Krahl,Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection,London,1994-2010,vol.2,no.861
Yongzheng Six-Character Mark
The exterior of the dishes is lightly incised with a continuous scroll bearing lingzhi fungus amidst rocks and is covered in a soft sea-green glaze pooling to a slightly darker tone in the incised decoration. The interiors and bases are left white and the base is inscribed with six-character Yongzheng mark in double circles.
A similar dish is illustrated by Peter Y. K. Lam in Shimmering Colours - Monochromes of the Yuan to Qing Periods: The Zhuyuetang Collection,Hong Kong,2005,p. 157,no. 86; and another is illustrated by Laurence C. S. Tam in Monochrome Ceramics of Ming and Ch’ing Dynasties,Min Chiu Society and The Urban Council,Hong Kong Museum of Art,1977,p. 70,no. 74.
Provenance
The Meiyintang Collection,Switzerland