Live Auction 19039Sacred and Imperial: The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection Part II
A RARE RESERVE-DECORATED COPPER RED-GLAZED DISH
Lot 846

A RARE RESERVE-DECORATED COPPER RED-GLAZED DISH

CHINA, QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Closed24 September 2020

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A RARE RESERVE-DECORATED COPPER RED-GLAZED DISH
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
Incised on the exterior of the rounded sides with four varied fish reserved in white against a deep copper-red ground, the interior white
8 in. (20.3 cm.) diam.

Robert Somerville, Chicago, 7 September 1956.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.

Specialist note


A similar dish with Yongzheng mark in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong: Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 243, no. 72, and another was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26 April 1999, lot 680. Related Yongzheng “three fish” dishes and bowls, based on Xuande-period designs, with a pattern of three red fish on a white ground, appear to have been produced on a greater scale than the copper-red dishes reserve-decorated with four fish. A pair of Yongzheng dishes with three copper-red fish on a white ground was included in the Hong Kong O. C. S. Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain and Related Underglaze Red, Hong Kong, 1975, no. 129.