YONGZHENG (1723-35)

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A PAIR OF FINE FAMILLE ROSE RUBY-BACK EGGSHELL DEEP PLATES
YONGZHENG (1723-35)
Each very finely and richly enamelled and gilt with an elegantly dressed lady, three boys and a diminutive attendant beside bamboo furniture, garden seats, a fan, a whisk and scrolls in a large vase, smaller vessels of fruit and flowers, and a stool supporting a basket of fruit, all within a hexafoil panel with gilt surround reserved on a pale blue Y-pattern ground, below a narrow pale yellow dragon band at the well, and a pale lilac cell-pattern band at the border reserved with three fruit and flower cartouches alternating with gilt dragon roundels, the reverse of each enamelled in a deep even ruby-red tone
8 1/8 in. (20.5 cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

One plate: Anon sale; Christie's London, 10 June 1974, lot 264
Other plate: with Konrad Bernheimer, Munich.

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Lot Essay

A single plate with almost identical decoration was in the Clark Collection, illustrated by Edgar Bluett, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Clark, (n.d.), having originally appeared in an issue of Apollo - A Journal of the Arts, between September 1933 and May 1934.

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