A FINE BLACK-GROUND 'FAMILLE-ROSE' SAUCER Yongzheng mark and period

delicately potted with curved shallow sides, the exterior elaborately painted with scrolling lotus, peony and clematis, with iron-red serrated leaves, all against a black ground, the short foot decorated with a floral band on a green ground, the interior glazed white

Acquired from a German dealer before 1924.
Brought to the United States circa 1934, by Gertrude Morgenroth, Great Neck, New York.
Thence by descent to Eva Lande.
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio (before 1981).
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio (1981-2008).

In very good overall condition with light wear to the enamel.
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The small size of this saucer is comparable with a pair originally in the Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bernat collection, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, 1980, vol. 10, no. 263.