A PAIR OF YELLOW-GLAZED INCISED SAUCER DISHES
Yongzheng six-character marks and of the period
Each finely potted with rounded sides, meticulously incised around the exterior with delicate floral scrolls, the interior and underside covered with a bright lemon-yellow glaze, the base glazed creamy white, box. 14.5cm (5¾in) diam. (3).
Footnotes:
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

清雍正 黃釉暗刻纏枝花卉紋盤一對
青花「大清雍正年製」楷書款

Provenance: Christie's London, 10 June 1996, lot 112
An important European private collection

來源: 倫敦佳士得，1996年6月10日，拍品編號112
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At the Qing Court, the colour yellow held profound symbolism, as it was traditionally associated with Imperial power, royalty, and prosperity. Yellow was the exclusive colour reserved for the emperor, symbolising his supreme authority and divine mandate to rule. As such, yellow dishes at the Yongzheng court would have been imbued with this symbolic significance, signifying the emperor's presence and the auspiciousness of his reign. Compare with a similar yellow-glazed incised dish, illustrated by Yau Hok Wa, ed., Shimmering Colours: Monochromes of the Yuan to Qing Periods: The Zhuyuetang Collection, Hong Kong, 2005, no.127. Another very similar yellow-glazed dish, Yongzheng six-character mark and of the period, is illustrated in The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p.181.

See a very similar incised yellow-glazed dish, Yongzheng six-character mark and of the period, which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 10 July 2020, lot 3104.

Each with several very minor shallow nicks to the foot, the longest approximately 1mm, and minor firing imperfections including one line of original shallow indentations approximately 18mm long underneath the glaze, light surface wear and some fine crackles in the glaze. The colour of one slightly duller than the other.