A MAGNIFICENT IMPERIAL FAMILLE ROSE DISH

THE PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

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A MAGNIFICENT IMPERIAL FAMILLE ROSE DISH
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

This dish is finely enamelled on the interior with two branches, the larger branch issuing white-flowering prunus and extends around the curve of the dish, entwined by a smaller pink-flowering peach branch detailed with iron-red sepals, a large iron-red and purple lingzhi sprig growing from the trunk of the larger tree, between sprays of bamboo, with finely shaded leaves browning at the tips and a blossoming camellia, all continuing onto the underside with the camellia and the peach extending in one direction around the sides and the prunus in the opposing direction
19 7/8 in. (50.6 cm.) diam.

Literature

The Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art Assembled by Yamanaka & Co., New York, 1943, no. 588, right.

Lot Essay

A Yongzheng dish in the Palace Museum, Beijing, enamelled with the same flowers in mirror image is illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, p. 222, pl. 51. Other dishes of this design are illustrated by Beurdeley and Raindre, Qing Porcelain, col. pl. 130, in the Percival David Foundation; and by S. Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, col. pl. XLVIII, in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. Another closely related dish from the Eyre Collection, with a rose spray rather than the camellia is illustrated by Williamson, The Book of Famille Rose, pl. XXV (centre).

Compare also with another large dish painted with chrysanthemum, illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 15, pl. 204; and a small dish enamelled with peony offered in this sale, lot 557.

(US$410,000-490,000)

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