A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS' DISH MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG

the curved sides rising from a short tapering foot to an everted rim, finely painted in the Ming style with 'heaping and piling' to the interior with a medallion enclosing a ribbon-tied lotus bouquet, encircled in the well with an undulating leafy floral scroll below a classic scroll band at the rim, the exterior with a broad leafy floral scroll between classic scroll and keyfret bands

The dish is in good overall condition with the exception of an 8cm., wide U-shaped repaired break to the rim and an assocuiated small area of over-painting to the rim, fritting to the lower edge of the rim on the exterior, light glaze scratches and minor pinhead-sized burst glaze bubbles to the interior. It should be noted that the base has a paper exhibition label 'Kunst Industri Museet, Kobenhavn, 1950' exhibit no. 575.
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Based on the splendid 'lotus bouquet' design found on Yongle dishes, it is unusual to find an eighteenth century dish of this pattern with a Yongzheng reign mark. A closely related dish of Yongzheng mark and period is illustrated in Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. XIX, fig. 2. Compare two dishes sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 20^th May 1986, lot 42, and the other from the R. I. Cherridge collection, 20^th May 1987, lot 441; and a third example sold at Christie's New York, 1^st June 1990, lot 248, and again, 10^th April 2006, lot 1688.