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Lot Essay
The large dish is potted with wide flaring sides, finely painted on the interior in brilliant enamels with a central medallion formed by a pair of stylised confronted phoenix with their wings outstretched and tails fanned open, surrounded by a foliate scroll bearing four stylised lotus-heads. The cavetto decorated with the Eight Buddhist Emblems, bajixiang, tied with fluttering ribbons amidst multi-hued swirling cloud-scrolls, the everted rim with eight further symbols on a wave-ground.
Several similar dishes of this large size have been published, one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Wucai, Doucai: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, p.252, pl.231 (fig. 1); one included in the Nanjing Museum and the Chinese University of Hong Kong joint exhibition, Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Hong Kong, 1995, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 104; and one sold at Christie's London, 8 December 1986, lot 436.
Several similar dishes of this large size have been published, one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Wucai, Doucai: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, p.252, pl.231 (fig. 1); one included in the Nanjing Museum and the Chinese University of Hong Kong joint exhibition, Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Hong Kong, 1995, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 104; and one sold at Christie's London, 8 December 1986, lot 436.