A FAMILLE VERTE 'BIRTHDAY' PLATE

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

The broad medallion delicately enamelled with Magu holding a ruyi sceptre beside an attendant holding a bamboo pole suspending lingzhi fungus behind a spotted deer pulling a cart containing a vase, the everted rim pencilled in iron-red with lotus florettes on a honeycomb diaper ground with the inscription in seal script wan shou wu jiang, longevity without end (three restored rim chips)
9 3/4 in. (25 cm.) diam., box

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, pl. 102.

Lot Essay

A similar example is illustrated by du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, p. 227, col. pl. 2. A closely related plate from the same service but depicting Magu behind a mythical beast drawing a cart of lingzhi fungus and her attendant holding a peach stem, is illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, p. 69, col. pl. 52, from the Palace Museum, Beijing. Compare also the doucai dish illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, col. pl. 220.

(US$13,000-20,000)

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