拍品 403
403
A FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND BOWL AND COVER
A FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND BOWL AND COVER

GUANGXU FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN IRON-RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)

细节
A FAMILLE ROSE YELLOW-GROUND BOWL AND COVER
GUANGXU FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN IRON-RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)
Both bowl and cover decorated with an allover design of magpies amidst blossoming plum branches set against a bright lemon-yellow ground, the interiors plain
4 1/8 in. (10.4 cm.) diam.

拍品专文

The combination of magpies amidst plum blossoms alludes to the rebus Sixi shangmei (Four magpies settle on the branches of the plum tree), a homonym for 'May four-fold joy shine on you'. A bowl with similar decoration is illustrated in G. Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure: Chinese Porcelain from the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Weishaupt Collection, London, 1987, p. 113, no. 163.