A SMALL IMPERIAL AUBERGINE-GLAZED INCISED DISH, China, Yongzheng six-character mark and period in underglaze blue, With shallow rounded sides, the exterior incised with a frieze of pomegranate meander, covered all over with a glaze of rich aubergine color - Provenance: Collection of Capitain George Francis Warre, CBE (1876-1957), Collection of K.W.Woollcombe Boyce, Collection of Derek G. Ide (d. 1979), American private collection, sold Sotheby's New York, 20.3.2012, Lot 233 - An aubergine-glazed saucer dish of similar size with the same pomegranate decoration is illustrated in the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, Inaugural Exhibition - Chinese Ceramics, vol. 1, 1993, no. 203, where the catalogue notes that dish of this color and design were supplied to the Qing Imperial Palace in 1729. The design of the bajixiang appears to be more common than that of pomeranate scroll on aubergine-glazed dishes of this type. See, for example, the dish illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, pl. 318 [A476]; and another in the National Palace Museum, illustrated in Catalogue of Special Exhibition of Ch'ing Monochromes, Taipei, 1981, no. 45.