A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE EGGSHELL RUBY-BACK SAUCER-DISHES, each finely enamelled with a lady seated on a carved wood chair beside two young boys offering her a jar of lotus flowers, the lady holding a peony beside a large jar and cover, a high stand supporting a model of a Buddhistic lion and a vase of fungus and a flywhisk, the rim with small floral cartouches reserved on a turquoise diaper band, the reverse under ruby enamel (one cracked), Yongzheng

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE EGGSHELL RUBY-BACK SAUCER-DISHES, each finely enamelled with a lady seated on a carved wood chair beside two young boys offering her a jar of lotus flowers, the lady holding a peony beside a large jar and cover, a high stand supporting a model of a Buddhistic lion and a vase of fungus and a flywhisk, the rim with small floral cartouches reserved on a turquoise diaper band, the reverse under ruby enamel (one cracked), Yongzheng
20cm. diam. (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. A du Bourlay, op. cit., p.264, no.9

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