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

细节

A LARGE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE DISH
Yongzheng six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the period (1723-1735)
With shallow rounded sides, the interior well painted in fifteenth century style in subtly shaded underglaze blue with seven lobed melons borne on a leafy, flowering vine below a band of composite foliate scroll in the well, the everted rim painted with a wave border within a molded outer edge, with six detached fruiting branches on the exterior, including peach, lychee, pomegranate, crab apple, loquat and cherry
17 7/8in. (45.5cm.) diam., box

出版

The Tsui Museum of Art; Hong Kong, 1991, pl. 94
The Tsui Museum of Art; Chinese Ceramics IV: Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 59

展览

Gems of Chinese Art; Selections of Chinese Ceramics and Bronzes from the Tsui Art Foundation, Singapore, The Empress Place Museum, 1992, no. 95

拍品专文

This design is based on Yongle fifteenth century prototypes, examples of which are illustrated by J. A. Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1956, pl. 40, no. 29.61 and in the Catalogue of the Hong Kong O.C.S. exhibition of Jingdezhen Wares, The Yuan Evolution, 1984, no.142, from the collection of Dr. Ip Yee. However, while the Yongle examples generally bear two melons, and the plant is shown rooted to the ground, the Yongzheng examples have a design of a scrolling vine usually bearing seven melons. Compare the Yongzheng dish of the same size, illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Part 1, Hong Kong, 1987, col. pl. 53. Another is illustrated by Liu Liang-yu, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, Ching Official and Popular Wares, Taipei, 1991, p. 95 (top). See, also, Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing, The Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1990, no. 125.