A pair of famille rose plates

YONGZHENG

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A pair of famille rose plates
Yongzheng
Decorated in bright enamels with a central foliate panel of a court lady playing the qin beside a two-drawer cupboard, surrounded in the well by conjoined white enamelled lotus scroll reserved on a diaper ground executed in grisaille, all below shaped floral panels alternately decorated in blue enamel, gilt and iron-red and reserved on a now oxidized antimony ground
22.4 cm diam. (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. a similar example from the Martin Hurst Collection illustrated by G. Williamson, op.cit., p.152; a single plate in the British Museum, formerly in the Sir A.W. Frank Collection, illustrated by P. Connor, op.cit, no.108, p.78.

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