Lot 283. A rare pair of slip-decorated white-glazed dishes, Qing dynasty, 18th century. Diameter 5 5/8  in., 14.5 cm. Estimate 7,000 — 9,000 USD. Lot sold 25,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's.

each with gently rounded sides terminating in everted rims, the interior applied with a delicately incised white slip decoration of a flowering prunus bough extending over the rim to the exterior (2).

Provenance: Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 1st April 1982.

Note: The present rare slip-decorated dish is based on a Song dynasty motif of prunus decoration found on Jizhou paper-cut resist bowls and, more closely, on Qingbai wares with incised design. A Qingbai-glazed shallow bowl with carved prunus in the Jiangxi Museum is illustrated in Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, Jianxi, vol. 14, Beijing, 2008, no. 75. 

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Works of Art New York, 17 march 2015, 02:00 PM