A FINE DOUCAI 'NARCISSUS' DISH

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A FINE DOUCAI 'NARCISSUS' DISH
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The centre delicately painted and enamelled with narcissus and red nandina above a small butterfly in flight and lingzhi springing up between tufts of grass and rockwork in underglaze-blue, the reverse with three clusters of rocks, including bamboo and lingzhi, narcissus, and fruiting nandina, all within double-line borders
8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.) diam. box

來源

The Jingguantang Collection, sold in these Rooms, 3 November 1996, lot 577.

出版

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, pl. 144

拍品專文

The present example appears to be unique in its inclusion of the butterfly in an otherwise standard design. Compare to similar examples without the butterfly motif, the first illustrated in Mayuyama Seventy Years, vol. I, p. 355, no. 1065; another from the Meiyintang Collection, illustrated in the Catalogue, vol. two, p. 135, col. pl. 765; and further example from the British Rail Pension Fund, sold in Hong Kong, 1 November 1999, lot 364. Also compare to a narcissus dish included in the exhibition, The Hundred Flowers Botanical Motifs in Chinese Art, Asian Art Museum, 1985, illustrated by T. Bartholomew, Catalogue, no. 46, where the author suggested the pattern forms the rebus 'Fungus Fairy bestows birthday greetings'.

(US$115,000-154,000)

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