YONGZHENG (1723-1735)

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A LARGE ROSE-VERTE DISH
YONGZHENG (1723-1735)
Finely and brightly enamelled at the centre with a scene from 'The Romance of the Western Chamber', Cui Yingying in wistful contemplation seated on a rockwork stool leaning on a similar table on a terrace, whilst her two attendants notice the arrival of her suitor, the scholar Zhang, who is leaping over a wall towards her, using the branches of a willow tree to assist him, the wide everted border with four cartouches depicting languishing poets beside rockwork within yellow surrounds flanked by ruyi heads and iron-red and gilt peaches, all reserved on a pink diaper-pattern ground embellished with four peony heads and foliage, the dish overall heightened with gilt details, a minor underside rim chip and rim nicks
18½ in. (47 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

This dish illustrates well the transition from the famille verte palette to that of the famille rose; the translucency of the famille verte enamels is still evident, but the newly discovered rose is used with great enthusiasm and to great effect. Two related dishes, slightly larger, from the A. E. Cumberbatch Collection, also depicting scenes from popular novels, are illustrated by E. Gorer and J. F. Blacker, Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, vol.II, London, 1911, plate 221.

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