YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

A similar blue and white Yongzheng-period ‘dragon’ dish from the T. Y. Chao Family Trust was sold at Christie's New York, 22 March 2024, lot 969, the present dish featured a more vibrant blue and depicted greater detail in the painting; another example in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, illustrated by K. Vollmer and Nagai-Berthong in Silk Roads-China Ships, Toronto, 1983, p. 229, and another is in the National Museum of China, illustrated in Zhongguo guojia bowuguan guancang wenwu yanjiu congshu - ciqi juan - Qing dai, Shanghai, 2007, p. 62, no. 38 (fig.1).