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5092 | Yongzheng Period,Qing Dynasty A RARE DOUCAI CHENGHUA-TYPE‘RUYI’DISH

A RARE DOUCAI CHENGHUA-TYPE‘RUYI’DISH

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Size: D8.2cm

Signed and dated: Yongzheng Period,Qing Dynasty

Estimate:

Final Price: RMB 650,000


Yongzheng Six-Character Mark
This small dish is thinly potted with a bended side near the bottom rising from a short footring. The shallow interior is centred with a medallion enclosing a floral roundel composed of interlocking multi-coloured ruyi blooms while the exterior is bordered with seven lingzhi blooms. The base is inscribed with an underglaze-blue six-character Yongzheng reign mark within a double-circle.
Compare a slightly larger dish of this type,sold in Sotheby’s Hong Kong,24th November 1987,lot 163. For the prototype of this motif,see those doucai dishes with Chenghua marks and of the period included in the Special Exhibition of Ch’eng-hua Porcelain Ware,National Palace Museum,Taipei,2003,cat. nos. 184,185 and 186.
Provenance
A Private Japanese Collection