A famille rose plate

YONGZHENG

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A famille rose plate
Yongzheng
Decorated in bright enamels with a central foliate panel of a court lady playing the qin beside a two-drawer cupboard, surrounded in the well by conjoined white enamelled lotus scroll reserved on a diaper ground executed en grisaille, all below shaped floral panels alternately decorated in blue enamel, gilt and iron-red and reserved on a now oxidized antimony ground (minute rim chip)
23.4 cm. diam.

Lot Essay

For a similar example in the Martin Hurst Collection, see G. Williamson, Famille Rose, p. 152.
A pair of famille rose plates was sold in our Amsterdam Rooms, 18 November 1997, lot 136.

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