Lot 2913. A fine black-ground famille verte dish, Yongzheng six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the period (1723-1735); 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 150,000 - HKD 250,000 (USD 19,266 - USD 32,111). Price realised HKD 475,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019

With shallow rounded sides, the exterior is decorated with a frieze of composite foliate meander surrounded by small scrolling leaves, all reserved on a black ground above a narrow band of classic scroll on the foot. The interior is plain, box. 

Provenance: Sold at Christie’s New York, 29 March 2006, lot 496.

Note: A pair of dishes of this design was included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition catalogue, An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1980, no. 131; while another pair was sold at Christie’s New York, 3 December 1992, lot 336. A similar dish from the Wangxinglou Collection is illustrated in Imperial Perfection: The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors - Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Hong Kong, 2004, pp. 98-9, no. 33; one in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, London, 1986, pl. 23; one in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji; Gongyi Meishu Bian, vol. 3, Beijing, 1988, p. 167, no. 202; and another from the Paul and Helen Bernat Collection, was sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, lot 23.