A blue and white ‘mandarin duck and lotus’ dish Yongzheng mark and period

the shallow rounded sides rising from a tapered foot, painted to the interior with a central medallion enclosing two mandarin ducks swimming amidst a lotus pond, the exterior similarly decorated with further ducks in a lotus pond below a frieze of dragons chasing flaming pearls, the recessed base inscribed with a six-character mark within a double-circle

Collection of Sydney Laurence, London, circa 1890.
Thence by descent.

This dish is in good condition, but there are two small areas of glaze inconsistency below the rim to the interior to one side. There is three small areas (1cm by 5mm, 1cm by 5mm and 4mm by 4mm) of wear to the glaze to the interior. There are also some burst air bubbles and small iron spots to the glaze.
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Sydney Laurence was a senior partner at one of London's most eminent stockbroking firms of the 19th century, Laurence, Cazenove & Pierce. He lived at Bygrove house, Clapham Park, London, an Italianate styled villa built by Thomas Cubitt, the master builder in London of the 19th century, which was demolished after 1895 to make way for railway lines and a new housing development. Laurence amassed a sizeable collection of Chinese art, having widely collected abroad, much of which was sold at auction in 1895.