A very rare pair of ruby-backed saucer dishes marks and period of Yongzheng

each of exceptional 'eggshell' potting, the low rounded sides rising from a tapering knife-cut foot enclosing a slightly sunken well, the exterior applied with a superb and intense ruby-pink enamel glaze displaying a soft dimpled texture, leaving the interior and base glazed white, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze-blue within double circles

Hall Family Collection (inventory nos.360 & 361).
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2nd May 2000, lot 547. 

It is very rare to find a pair of dishes of this type. Only two other examples of this size and with this mark appear to be recorded, both sold in these rooms; one illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol.2, no.915, was sold on 29th November, 1979, lot 338, the other was sold on 1st November, 1994, lot 101.