Lot 2265. A small blue and white Ming-style dish, Yongzheng six-character mark within double circles and of the period (1723-1735); 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 80,000 - HKD 150,000. Price realised HKD 350,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013

The dish is well potted with rounded sides rising from a short slightly tapering foot. The interior is painted in dark blue and paler shades of cobalt blue with areas simulating 'heaping and piling' with a lotus scroll surrounding a central bloom. The cavetto is deatiled with a continuous composite floral meander surrounded by a classic scroll to the rim, the exterior with a similar floral meander below a keyfret band to the rim.

Provenance: Sold at Christie's London, 13 May 2008, lot 217 (one of a pair) 

Christie's. Imperial Sale; Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, HKCEC Grand Hall, 29 May 2013