A RARE FAMILLE VERTE 'FLORAL' DISH

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A RARE FAMILLE VERTE 'FLORAL' DISH
ENCIRCLED KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Decorated in underglaze blue and delicately enamelled in the well with a dense scattered composition of leafy floral-sprays including a large hydrangea bloom, lotus, magnolia, narcissus, plum blossom, rose, peony, chrysanthemum, ruyi, and flowering apricot and wintersweet flowers, within double-lines repeated at the flared rim, the exterior similarly decorated with eight evenly spaced floral sprigs (rim hairlines)
8 in. (20.3 cm.) diam., box

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, 1995, pl. 95.

Lot Essay

Cf. a similar but smaller dish, sold in our London Rooms, 9 June 1997, lot 97.

It is interesting to note that the flowers on the present dish relate quite well to the painting quality of the flowers painted on famille verte 'month'cups, and that most emblematic flowers found on 'month' cups are represented as one of the loose sprigs on this dish.

(US$8,000-10,000)

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