A RARE REVERSE-DECORATED POWDER-BLUE 'GARDENIA' DISH YONGZHENG MARK AND PERIOD
with shallow rounded sides resting on a short foot, the interior centered with a medallion enclosing a gardenia spray, surrounded by four similar sprays around the cavetto and a matching continuous scroll on the exterior, all reserved against a finely speckled cobalt-blue ground, the floral and foliate details of the design rendered in white slip, the base inscribed with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle
Diameter 13 1/8 in., 33.3 cm
Provenance:
Sotheby's New York, 22nd March 2001, lot 106.
View it on
Sale price
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
with shallow rounded sides resting on a short foot, the interior centered with a medallion enclosing a gardenia spray, surrounded by four similar sprays around the cavetto and a matching continuous scroll on the exterior, all reserved against a finely speckled cobalt-blue ground, the floral and foliate details of the design rendered in white slip, the base inscribed with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle
Diameter 13 1/8 in., 33.3 cm
Provenance:
Sotheby's New York, 22nd March 2001, lot 106.
Sale price
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
