Description Yongzheng six-character mark in kaishu and of the period Of saucer form with shallow flaring sides, the interior delicately painted in a widely ranging palette including purple, orange, iron-red, yellow, and green with an elaborate floral medallion with flowerheads, consisting of a peony, hibiscus, lotus, mallow and lilly, amidst flower buds, foliage and curled leaves, all delicately outlined in underglaze-blue and between a double underglaze-blue line border, the exterior decorated similarly. The present plate is an outstanding example of the imperial porcelain art of the Yongzheng period (1722-1735). The porcelain painter has supplemented the classic colour palette of the legendary doucai models from the Chenghua period (1464-1487) of the Ming dynasty with further colours and shades, the production of which became possible in this period. The result is a colourful composition that combines flowers that actually bloom in nature at different times of the year. The enamel colours were applied to the underglaze blue contours with the greatest care and precision, so that there are hardly any places where they have been painted over. The porcelain body consists of a very pure white body and is extremely thin-walled. The six-character imperial mark on the base is excellently written and corresponds in its vertical axis with the flowers on the outer wall. The design is known from other doucai pieces of the Yongzheng period, such as a bowl in the Museum of East Asian Art in Bath. The present piece, however, seems to be the only one known so far in saucer dish form.尺寸_1: Dimensions Diameter 20.5 cm出处: Provenance Old private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia, and thence by descent文献: Literature Compare a bowl with a similar decoration in The Museum of East Asian Art, Inaugural Exhibition, vol. I, Chinese Ceramics, Bath 1993, p. 253, no. 199