A FAMILLE ROSE RUBY-BACK 'SEVEN BORDER' SOUP-PLATE

YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-35)

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A FAMILLE ROSE RUBY-BACK 'SEVEN BORDER' SOUP-PLATE
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-35)
The semi-eggshell plate finely and delicately enamelled at the centre with a leaf-shaped panel depicting an elegant lady and two boys in front of a simulated bamboo table with scholar's objects, and two barrel-shaped vases, the figures wearing ornate robes, all reserved on a gilt ground embellished with flowering foliage, the well and everted border with a further six borders, the underside covered in an even deep ruby-pink glaze
8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Captain A. T. Warre.
Mr. & Mrs. George Warre; and thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

R. L. Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China, London, 1925, pl. LVI, fig. 1.

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Lot Essay

An identical plate from the collection of Mr. Quincy Chuang was exhibited in An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, jointly presented by The Min Chiu Society and the Urban Council, Hong Kong, and The Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1980, catalogue no. 160. Another is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Salting Collection), illustrated by W. B. Honey, Guide to the Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1927, pl. 88, and p. 53, where it is described by Honey as a 'masterpiece'. A further example from the Grandidier Collection is in the Louvre, Paris, and is illustrated by G. C. Williamson, The Book of Famille Rose, London, 1927, plate LXII

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