Lot 27. A fine small celadon-glazed incised 'lingzhi' dish, Mark and period of Yongzheng (1723-1735); 11.6 cm, 4 ½ in. Estimate: 400,000 - 600,000 HKD. Lot sold 604,800 HKD. Courtesy Sotheby's.

finely potted with shallow rounded sides, the interior deftly incised with a roundel enclosing four lingzhi heads amidst leafy bamboo, the exterior similarly decorated, covered overall with a soft sea-green glaze, the base left white and inscribed with a six-character reign mark in underglaze blue.

Note: A Yongzheng mark and period dish of this design, from the Malcom McDonald Collection, now in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, is illustrated in A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcom MacDonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1972, pl. XXXVIII, no. 115; four were sold in these rooms, 9th November 1982, lot 236A, 19th November 1986, lot 247, 17th May 1988, lot 72 and 5th October 2016, lot 3622; and a pair was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29th April 1996, lot 726.