A FINE CRIMSON-PINK SAUCER MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG

delicately potted with shallow rounded sides, rising from a slightly recessed base and a tapering foot, brightly glazed on the exterior with an intense crimson-pink enamel, the interior and the base left in white with a six-character mark inscribed in underglaze blue on the base

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29th November 1979, lot 338.

Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, The British Museum, London, 1994.
Evolution to Perfection. Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection/Evolution vers la perfection. Céramiques de Chine de la Collection Meiyintang, Sporting d'Hiver, Monte Carlo, 1996, cat. no. 195.

Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 2, no. 915.

There is a body line that encircles the entire dish near the foot. The enamelling is in quite good condition with a faint scratch, and a vertical streak that is slightly darker than the rest of the dish. The enamelling has crackling near the base.
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Dishes of this wonderful colour are exceedingly rare. A similar pair from the E.T. Hall collection was sold in these rooms 2nd May 2000, lot 547 and again 10th April 2006, lot 1625; another single dish 1st November 1994, lot 101. A slightly smaller dish with this enamel colour, with a square reign mark, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is published in Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 256.