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11 décembre 2021

A Fine White-Glazed Chrysanthemum Dish, Mark And Period Of Yongzheng (1723-1735)

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Lot 3556. A Fine White-Glazed Chrysanthemum Dish, Mark And Period Of Yongzheng (1723-1735). D 16 cm. Sold for HKD 1,680,000/USD 215,385 (Estimate HKD 1,000,000 - 1,500,000/USD 128,205 - 192,308). © Poly Auction Hong Kong Limited

The dish is potted with the delicate shallow rounded sides and is exquisitely moulded in the form of twenty-four slender fluted petals, simulating a chrysanthemum bloom. All these are supported on a foot of corresponding form. It is covered overall save for the footring with an even opaque white glaze. The base is inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark within a double circle.
Provenance: The Meiyintang Collection

Exhibition: Pure and Natural: Special EXHIBITION of Ming and Qing Monochrome Porcelains, Poly Art Museum, Beijing, 2018

Literature: 1. Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 4(2), London, 1994-2010, pp.320-321, no.1781
2. Pure and Natural: Special EXHIBITION of Ming and Qing Monochrome Porcelains, Poly Art Museum, Beijing, 2018, p.277, no.105.

Note: Chrysanthemum-shaped dishes appear in complete sets of twelve colors, with the most notable set, all with Yongzheng marks, being in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 257.
Other white-glazed Yongzheng-marked chrysanthemum dishes are known. See one from a set of seven, illustrated in The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p. 180.

Poly Auction. A Romance Among Blooming Roses: The Meiyintang Collection of Three Dynasties Imperial Ceramics,  Hong Kong, 2 December 2021

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