A PAIR OF LARGE FAMILLE VERTE DISHES
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
A PAIR OF LARGE FAMILLE VERTE DISHES

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A PAIR OF LARGE FAMILLE VERTE DISHES
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Of saucer shape, each boldly enamelled with an elegant lady in conversation with a young boy on a garden terrace, on one dish the lady is seated on a low table holding a lotus pod and the boy a gilt ruyi sceptre, on the other she is standing beside a rockwork table holding a fruit, the boy with outstretched arms as if to catch it, the undersides with two simple rocky outcrops, and the base with a ribboned lozenge mark in underglaze blue within double circles, all within an unglazed grooved footrim
13½ in. (34.4 cm.) diam. (2)
Provenance
With John Sparks Ltd., London.
The Hon. Mrs. Nellie Ionides; and thence by descent to the present owner.

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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.

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