A VERY RARE FAMILLE VERTE 'BIRTHDAY' PLATE

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A VERY RARE FAMILLE VERTE 'BIRTHDAY' PLATE
ENCIRCLED KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The broad medallion delicately enamelled with an eagle perched on the branch of a fruiting ginko tree, the naturalistically depicted bird looking back over its shoulder with beady eyes, the everted rim pencilled in iron-red with lotus florettes on a honeycomb diaper ground and the seal script inscription wan shou wu jiang, longevity without end (two rim chips restored, polished glaze frits)
10 in. (25.4 cm.) diam., box

出版

The Tsui Museum of Art, 1991, pl. 108.
The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, pl. 99.

拍品专文

A similar example is illustrated by du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, p. 227, col. pl. 2.

The present plate together with the accompanying lots are said to have been made as part of a service to celebrate the 60th birthday of the Emperor Kangxi in 1713. For other designs from the service, see Elegant Form and Harmonious Decoration, pp. 115-116, nos. 124-126, from the Percival David Foundation; du Boulay, op.cit. p. 227, pl. 2; Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 9, col. pl. 88, from the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm; and ibid, vol. 7, col. pl. 35, from the Musee Guimet, Paris.

(US$24,000-28,000)