A FINE FAMILLE ROSE DISH

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A FINE FAMILLE ROSE DISH
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The dish is thinly potted and translucent with angled sides rising to a flaring rim; the interior is enamelled in pink, green, yellow, turquoise, green, purple, black and iron-red, with a smiling sage casually dressed in long robes seated in a rustic chair with a foot-rest beside three jars, one containing two lingzhi and a fan, and one with a ruyi, with two bats flying above; the glaze stops at the rounded foot revealing the smooth pale body
6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Capt. C. Oswald Liddell
Mr and Mrs E. C. Blake, sold Sotheby's London, 8 July 1958, lot 100.
A Chicago Private Collection, sold Sotheby's New York, 1 June 1988, lot 189.

Exhibited

Oriental Ceramic Society, Enamelled Polychrome Porcelain of the Manchu Dynasty, London, 1951, Catalogue, no. 62.
Christie's London, An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 2-14 June 1993, Catalogue, no. 94.

Lot Essay

The design on this dish appears to form part of a series where a central pattern is painted without any frame at all across the centre of an otherwise entirely white dish with a sharply raised edge. The pattern usually encompasses an interior scene with a single or a group of figures involved in leisurely pursuits.

For other related examples, see the pair of dishes from the Charles Russell and Shire Collections of the same size and form, with Yongzheng reign marks but painted with different figure scenes, included in the O. C. S. Jubilee Exhibition, The Ceramic Art of China, London, 1971, Catalogue no. 218; and the larger pair from the Malcolm MacDonald Collection in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, illustrated by Legeza, Catalogue, pl. CXXXIII, nos. 361 and 362. Compare also an unmarked version in the Beijing Palace Museum, with a lady in an interior setting, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, p. 224, no. 53.

(US$35,000-45,000)

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