Details A PAIR OF FAMILLE NOIRE DISHESYONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)Each dish is decorated on the exterior with leafy lotus scrolls reserved on a black ground. The short foot is further decorated with scrolling design on a pale green ground.5 7/8 in. (14.8 cm.) diam. Provenance Bluett & Sons, London, June 1929, as recorded in the RHRP ledgerThe Reginald and Lena Palmer Collection, no. 202 Literature The Oriental Ceramic Society, Exhibition of Enamelled Polychrome Porcelain of the Manchu Dynasty 1644-1912, London, 1951, p.10, cat. no. 64 (one)Bonham’s, Reginald and Lena Palmer, Their Collection and The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1921-1970, London, 2021, pp. 54-55, no. 15 Exhibited London, The Oriental Ceramic Society, Exhibition of Enamelled Polychrome Porcelain of the Manchu Dynasty 1644-1912, 23 May – 21 July 1951, no. 64 (one)Bonham’s London, Reginald and Lena Palmer, Their Collection and The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1921-1970: A Loan Exhibition, 25 October – 2 November 2021 Conditions of sale