Lot Essay
The composite flowers painted in iron-red enamels on this example are very unusual and do not appear or any other recorded examples of this type.
For other examples of this Imperial pattern, cf. the only two Yongzheng porcelain dishes of this very large size recorded in the West. See S. W. Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, pl. XLVIII, for the example in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, and the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Enamelled Ware in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, no. A839, also illustrated by Beurdeley and Raindre, Qing Porcelain, New York, p. 92, no. 130.
The only other example of this very large size with the complete and fully detailed drawing which has been published to date is in the Palace Museum in Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, pl.51
For other examples of this Imperial pattern, cf. the only two Yongzheng porcelain dishes of this very large size recorded in the West. See S. W. Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, pl. XLVIII, for the example in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, and the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Enamelled Ware in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, no. A839, also illustrated by Beurdeley and Raindre, Qing Porcelain, New York, p. 92, no. 130.
The only other example of this very large size with the complete and fully detailed drawing which has been published to date is in the Palace Museum in Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, pl.51