A COPPER-RED-DECORATED POWDER-BLUE-GROUND SAUCER-DISH, AND A POWDER-BLUE SAUCER-DISH Each with a Chenghua six-character mark, Kangxi Comprising: a dish decorated with a floral prunus spray laden with snow beneath a crescent moon, the blossoms heightened with stamens and the branches detailed with textured bark in copper-red, all reserved on a powder-blue ground, the exterior painted with bamboo sprays, 20.3cm (8in) diam.; and a power-blue dish painted with a night scene featuring a pine tree, bamboo, and flowering shrubs, with a crescent moon above, 20.5cm (8 1/8in) diam. (2). Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 清康熙 灑藍釉地紅梅花紋盤 及灑藍釉留白松竹紋盤 一組兩件 青花「大明成化年製」楷書款 Provenance: acquired from R & G McPherson Antiques, London, in June 2006 and on 27 October 2013 (collector's notes and a label) Published and Illustrated: M.White, Eating at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Mary and Peter White collection, vol.3, n.p, 2022, p.80 (a and b) 來源：獲得于倫敦古董商R & G McPherson Antiques，2006年6月及2013年10月27日（藏家筆記及標簽） 著錄：M.White，《Eating at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Mary and Peter White collection》，第3冊，無出版地，2022年，第80頁（a和b） The glaze applied on the pieces of the present lot is known as 'sprinkled blue' 灑藍 (salan). This technique is applied by dipping a bamboo tube into a blue glaze suspension and blowing it onto the surface of the vessel. After firing, the uneven force of the blowing results in mottled patches of varying thickness and depth of colour, giving the surface the appearance of being dusted with snow. For this reason, the glaze is also referred to as 'snowflake blue' 雪花藍 (xuehualan). The technique was first created during the Xuande period of the Ming dynasty, but production did not increase significantly until the Kangxi period of the Qing dynasty. See a related powder-blue and copper-red 'floral' saucer-dish, early Kangxi, which was sold at Bonhams London, 2 November 2023, lot 20. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing