Lot Essay
A dish of this pattern was included in the exhibition, The Hundred Flowers. Botanical Motifs in Chinese Art, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 1985, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 46; where this decorative combination has been identified by T. Bartholomew as forming a rebus. The narcissus (shuixian), rocks (shoushi), and the sacred fungus (lingzhi) form the pun for "zhixian zhushou" or "fungus fairy bestows birthday greeting".
Compare to a similar example illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, p. 335, no. 1065; and another from the Chang Foundation, Taipei, is included by James Spencer, Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1990, pl. 137.
Compare to a similar example illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, p. 335, no. 1065; and another from the Chang Foundation, Taipei, is included by James Spencer, Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1990, pl. 137.