the well-rounded sides rising from a slightly tapering foot, moulded on the exterior in shallow relief with a formal flower scroll with finely incised details and an upright petal border below, covered overall with a pale bluish-green glaze, the white-glazed base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark within a double-circle; 12.8 cm, 5 in.

Provenance: Roger Keverne, London.

Notes: 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; three were sold in these rooms, 9th November 1982, lot 236A, 19th November 1986, lot 247, and 17th May 1988, lot 72; and a pair was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29th April 1996, lot 726.

Sotheby's, Important Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 05 oct. 2016