Lot 3429. A rare doucai moulded 'lotus' dish, Yongzheng six-character mark within double circles and of the period (1723-1735); 7 1/2 in. (19.2 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 260,000 - HKD 350,000. Price Realized HKD 937,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013

The flared sides are moulded with tiers of lotus petals radiating out towards the barbed rim. It is decorated on the interior with a medallion of Sanskrit character in iron red within green enamel and iron-red ruyi bands separated by a triple-line border in underglaze blue, surrounded by two rows of pale yellow and pale green petals overlapping a third row of barbed petals alternately enclosing further Sanskrit characters and the Eight Buddhist Emblems, repeated on the exterior above corresponding petal tiers in shaded iron red and pale green emanating from a narrow band of iron-red petals encircling the foot. All within fine pencilled blue line borders, Japanese wood box.

Provenance: A Japanese private collection, acquired in the 1990s.

Note: Compare to a similar Yongzheng-marked dish in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (museum number: 584-1907); and a pair included in the Ching Wan Society Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Catalogue, no. 69; and another from the Jingguantang Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 3 November 1996, lot 576, and illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 134.

Porcelain dish decorated in underglaze blue and polychrome enamels in doucai style, Jingdezhen, China, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng mark and period (1723-35). Height: 6.5 cm, Diameter: 19 cm. Museum no. 584-1907. Julia C. Gulland Gift [September 2009]. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London