A VERY RARE FAMILE VERTE 'BIRTHDAY' PLATE

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

Delicately enamelled over the broad medallion with a goose gliding over a small gaggle of three geese feeding and squawking among bamboo and weeds at the water's edge beside a leafy tree, the everted border pencilled in iron-red with lotus florettes on a honeycomb diaper ground and the inscription wan shou wu jiang, longevity without end
(restored rim chips)
10 in. (25.4 cm.) diam., box

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, pl. 100.

Exhibited

Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, Joint exhibition by the Urban Council, and the Min Chiu Society, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1995/1996, Catalogue, pl. 162.
In Pursuit of Antiquities, Min Chiu Society Thirty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Hong Kong, 1995/1996, Catalogue, pl. 134.

Lot Essay

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

See also note to lot 586.

(US$20,000-24,000)

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