AN EXTREMELY RARE LARGE LEMON-YELLOW-ENAMELLED 'WAVES' DISH MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG

of well potted ogee form with shallow rounded sides resting on a short foot, finely carved around the foot with a band of breaking waves, evenly applied overall with a brilliant, rich lemon-yellow glaze, the interior and base glazed white, with the six-character mark inscribed on the base within double circles in underglaze-blue 

Christie's Hong Kong, 19th January 1988, lot 346.

Zhongguo mingtao riben xunhui zhan, Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo, 1992, p. 186.

The Leshantang Collection of Chinese Porcelain, Taipei, 2005, cat.no. 37.

The base of the dish has been lightly polished, but otherwise it is in very good condition overall. The actual colour is quite close to the colour depicted in the catalogue.
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It is unusual to find lemon-yellow glazed dishes exquisitely carved around the foot with the pattern of breaking waves, although a white-glazed dish of the same size and carved decoration but with flared angled sides was sold in our New York rooms, 1^st June 1993, lot 344.

Compare also a smaller celadon-glazed dish carved with a variation of the stylised wave design, included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition Monochrome Ceramics of the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1977, cat. no. 72, sold in these rooms, 9^th November 1982, lot 278; and another related celadon-glazed dish, formerly in the collection of C. K. Chang, sold in these rooms, 25^th April 2004, lot 263. Another smaller moon-white glazed dish of closely related form and carved decoration, from the Hong Kong Museum of Art collection, was included in the exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1984, cat. no. 59.