A DOUCAI 'DOUBLE LOTUS' DISH
Yongzheng six-character mark and of the period
The interior decorated with a central medallion enclosing a stylised double lotus bloom in iron red and yellow surrounded by a crown of ruyi head-form leafy foliage, all within a double line border repeated beneath the rim, the exterior with three double lotus flowers interspersed with elaborate floral strapwork, boxed.
16cm (6 1/4in) diam. (2).
Footnotes:
清雍正 鬪彩並蒂蓮紋盤 《大清雍正年製》款

For a closely related Yongzheng dish in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, see Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain, vol.1, Tokyo, 1980, pl. 92.

The dish has three hairlines from the rim, maximally approximately 3.5cm long, one with an associated rim-chip approx 1mm long, adjacent to another exterior rim chip approx 3mm long.