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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE CHARGER
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Well enamelled on the interior with two bees hovering above two flowering branches, the larger picked out in ochre-brown shades, bearing pink and white prunus blossoms and extending upwards around the curve of the dish, entwined by a smaller grey branch with greenish-white flowers, growing beside sprays of large iron-red peony blossoms and colourful lingzhi sprigs issuing from the trunk of the larger tree, all continuing over the mouth rim onto the underside of the dish with further peony blossoms extending in one direction around the sides and the prunus in the opposite direction (rim chip repaired)
21 3/8 in. (54.3 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A Yongzheng dish of identical design is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in the Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 222, pl. 51; and another enamelled with the flowers in mirror image, was included in The Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art Assembled by Yamanaka & Co., New York, 1943, no. 588, right, and subsequently sold in these Rooms, 31 October 2000, lot 910. Other dishes from this group include one from the Percival David Foundation, London, included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Qing Enamelled Wares, Section 2, London, Revised Edition 1991, fig. A839; one from the Eyre Collection in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, illustrated by S. Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, London, 1981, col. pl. XLVIII; one sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29 October 2001, lot 602; and another with chrysanthemums, illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 15, Japan, 1983, pl. 204.

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