Lot 890. A rare celadon-glazed carved saucer dish, Yongzheng six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the period (1723-1735); 6¼ in. (16 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 6,000 - USD 8,000. Price realised USD 16,250. © Christie's Images Ltd 2014

The dish with rounded sides is decorated in the center with a shou character surrounded by four lingzhi-shaped clouds against a background of froth-capped waves encircled by a border of waves repeated on the exterior as a frieze, and is covered inside and out with a glaze of delicate blue-green color. 

Provenance: Barbara Piasecka Johnson (1937-2013) Collection, Princeton, New Jersey. 
Tim and Sally Turner Collection, acquired in 1997. 

Christie’s. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 18 – 19 September 2014, New York, Rockefeller Plaza