Lot 3012
3012
A MASSIVE RARE BLACK-GROUND EMAMELLED AND INCISED CHARGER
A MASSIVE RARE BLACK-GROUND EMAMELLED AND INCISED CHARGER
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A MASSIVE RARE BLACK-GROUND EMAMELLED AND INCISED CHARGER

GUANGXU PERIOD (1875-1908), CHUXIUGONG ZHI HALL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE

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A MASSIVE RARE BLACK-GROUND EMAMELLED AND INCISED CHARGER
GUANGXU PERIOD (1875-1908), CHUXIUGONG ZHI HALL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
The central medallion of the charger is incised with two dragons around a central flaming pearl, enamelled with flowering peonies and prunus springing up from behind ornamental rock, the dragons partially picked out in enamels, the rounded sides with branches of flowering prunus, peonies, chrysanthemum and lotus all reserved on a black ground. The reverse is decorated with further striding dragons amidst flowers reserved on a pale lemon-yellow ground.
25 in. (64 cm.) diam., box
Provenance
Sold at Sotheby’s London, 4 November 1974, lot 269
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2 December 1977, lot 743
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 26-27 October 1993, lot 299
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27-28 April 1997, lot 784
Sold at Sotheby’s Paris, 9 June 2011, lot 202

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Lot Essay

The Palace of Gathered Elegance (Chuxiu gong) is located in the northeast of the Six Western Palaces in the Forbidden City, was the residence of concubines in Ming and Qing dynasties. The Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) once lived there and gave birth to Emperor Tongzhi. The porcelain wares with Chuxiugong zhi seal marks were ordered by the Empress Dowager Cixi for her use. According to Ronald W. Longsdorf in "The Tongzhi Imperial Wedding Porcelain", Orientations, October 1996, pp. 69-78, these wares were largely based on Kangxi period prototypes.

Compare to a large yellow-ground green and aubergine enamelled ‘dragon’ dish with Chuxiugong zhi seal mark in the National Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Studies of the Collections of the National Museum of China, Porcelain volume, Shanghai, 2007, p.220, no.147.

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