Lot 578. A rare turquoise-enamelled chrysanthemum dish, China, underglaze blue Yongzheng six-character mark and period. Estimate 9.000/12.000 €. Unsold €. © 2015 Nagel Auctions

Evenly potted with narrow fluted sides resembling the petals of a chrysanthemum flower, radiating around a slightly recessed centre and continuing on the exterior across the short straight foot, richly applied overall with an opaque turquoise enamel, the base and the interior of the foot similarly dressed in turquoise, save for the footring and a six-character reign mark inscribed in underglaze blue and reserved in white within double circles - D. 17,2 cm - Rim polished

Property from an old Bavarian private collection, bought in Munich in the 1970's

Notes: A Yongzheng-marked dish of this rare form, but covered with a lemon-yellow glaze, is illustrated in The Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, vol. 2, p. 222, no. 327. See, also, a pink-glazed pair of the same form with Yongzheng marks from the Ranney School, Tinton Falls, New Jersey, sold at Christie's New York, 2 June 1989, lot 206. A Qianlong-marked dish of the more standard chrysanthemum petal form covered in a pale turquoise glaze similar to that of the present lot is illustrated ibid., no. 326 

Nagel. "Asian Art", 07/12/2015