A FINE PAIR OF COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE DISHES YANGHETANG ZHI HALL MARKS, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

each with shallow sides rising from a recessed base to an everted rim, the exterior decorated in underglaze-blue with the Eight Immortals against a background of copper-red waves, the interior similarly decorated with a medallion enclosing Shoulao standing next to his deer against a background of tempestuous waves, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a four-character Yanghetang zhi ('Made for the Hall of Nurturing Harmony') hall mark within a double-square

Hosokawa Morisada Collection ten II – Shinno jiki, Persia no touki [Morisada Hosokawa Collection exhibition II – Qing porcelains and Persian ceramics], Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Kumamoto, 1993, cat. no. 12.

Sekai tōji zenshū / Ceramic Art of the World, vol. 15: Shin / Ch'ing Dynasty, Tokyo, 1983, p. 253, fig. 188.
Morisada Hosokawa, Mokumei goshiki: Shinchō jiki [Bewildering colours: Qing Dynasty porcelains], Tokyo, 1992, no. 23.

The pair is in overall very good condition with the exception of occasional glaze unevenness, especially above the footrings.
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