Lot Essay
These dishes belong to a distinctive group of dishes and vases decorated in the famille verte palette depicting an allover design of elegant ladies on garden terraces occupying much of the surface, frequently accompanied by boys, as in the present lot, and in the case of the dishes always without border decoration.
A dish from this group of the same size at those in the present lot, from the Salting collection, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by W. B. Honey, Guide to the Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1927, plate 76, and p. 48; see also plate 77 for a vase from the same collection, in which the ladies are depicted unusally large in proportion to the surface area of the vase. Two smaller similar dishes were sold in these rooms, 8 June 2004, lot 337.
A dish from this group of the same size at those in the present lot, from the Salting collection, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by W. B. Honey, Guide to the Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1927, plate 76, and p. 48; see also plate 77 for a vase from the same collection, in which the ladies are depicted unusally large in proportion to the surface area of the vase. Two smaller similar dishes were sold in these rooms, 8 June 2004, lot 337.