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Lot Essay
An identical dish was sold in our London Rooms, 6 April 1976, lot 166, and two examples at Christie’s Hong Kong, The Jingguantang Collection, 3 November 1996, lot 588 and One Man’s Vision, Important Chinese Art from The Manno Art Museum, 28 October 2002, lot 554.
The present dishes are closely related to the ‘birthday’ dishes said to have been made for the celebration of the Emperor Kangxi’s 60th birthday in 1713. A varied number of designs were commissioned as part of this set and many of them included birds and flowers, as is the case with the present dishes. The size and shape of the dishes also compare well with the birthday dishes. However, the present dishes lack the auspicious birthday greeting inscribed on the rim border of the ‘birthday’ dishes.
The decoration on these dishes also relates surprisingly well with that on the phoenix-tail vase in the Palace Museum, Beijing, which is very finely enameled in the famille verte palette and decorated with similar birds above a lush lotus pond (see Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 53, pl. 37). Another similar Kangxi vase is illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie’s Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, 1984, p. 226.
The present dishes are closely related to the ‘birthday’ dishes said to have been made for the celebration of the Emperor Kangxi’s 60th birthday in 1713. A varied number of designs were commissioned as part of this set and many of them included birds and flowers, as is the case with the present dishes. The size and shape of the dishes also compare well with the birthday dishes. However, the present dishes lack the auspicious birthday greeting inscribed on the rim border of the ‘birthday’ dishes.
The decoration on these dishes also relates surprisingly well with that on the phoenix-tail vase in the Palace Museum, Beijing, which is very finely enameled in the famille verte palette and decorated with similar birds above a lush lotus pond (see Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 53, pl. 37). Another similar Kangxi vase is illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie’s Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, 1984, p. 226.