Lot Essay
Previously sold in Hong Kong, 26 October 1993, lot 299.
Compare with another large enamelled biscuit dish with incised dragons in Kangxi style but with a Chuxiugong mark from the Simon Kwan Collection, included in the Chinese University of Hong Kong Exhibition, Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing, 1983, Catalogue, no. 100, and included in The Yangzhitang Collection sold in our Singapore Rooms, 30 March 1997, lot 367. Simon Kwan records that the wares with this mark are believed to have been ordered by the Dowager Empress Cixi for her use in the Chuxiu Gong in the Forbidden City where she resided for several years in 1856 and again in 1895; Kwan believes these special display wares to be Tongzhi rather than Guangxu in date.
(US$12,000-16,000)
Compare with another large enamelled biscuit dish with incised dragons in Kangxi style but with a Chuxiugong mark from the Simon Kwan Collection, included in the Chinese University of Hong Kong Exhibition, Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing, 1983, Catalogue, no. 100, and included in The Yangzhitang Collection sold in our Singapore Rooms, 30 March 1997, lot 367. Simon Kwan records that the wares with this mark are believed to have been ordered by the Dowager Empress Cixi for her use in the Chuxiu Gong in the Forbidden City where she resided for several years in 1856 and again in 1895; Kwan believes these special display wares to be Tongzhi rather than Guangxu in date.
(US$12,000-16,000)