Lot 859. A small pale blue-glazed dish, Yongzheng four-character seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1723-1735); 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000. Price realised USD 16,250. © Christie's Image Ltd 2020.

The thickly potted dish with horizontally stepped sides below a flat everted mouth rim, and covered overall with a pale blue glaze.

Provenance: The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago, acquired prior to 1990.

Exhibited: New York, China Institute, 18th Century Marked Imperial Porcelain in Sung Tradition, 29 November 1956-10 January 1957.

Note: A Yongzheng vase of this form with a pale grey Ge-type glaze in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Selection of Ge Ware: The Palace Museum Collection and Archaeological Discoveries, 2017, pp. 268-69, no. 131.

Christie's. Sacred and Imperial: The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection Part II, New York, 24 September 2020