YONGZHENG (1723-35)

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A FAMILLE ROSE EGGSHELL DEEP PLATE
YONGZHENG (1723-35)
Finely enamelled with a hexafoil panel at the centre depicting two elegantly dressed ladies seated at a table watching two boys playing with their pet rabbits, reserved on a pale blue Y-pattern ground, the well with a band of gilt scrolling foliage and the border with a pink cell-pattern band with four gilt floral irregularly-shaped cartouches flanked by butterflies and flowers alternating with blue and white enamel dragon roundels
8¼ in. (21 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 26 March 1980, lot 1893.
Dr Anton C. R. Dreesmann, no. J-100; sold Christie's, London, 10 April 2002, lot 398.

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Sale room notice

Please note that this plate has hairline cracks.

Lot Essay

An almost identical plate in the W. J. Holt collection is illustrated by G. C. Williamson, The Book of Famille Rose, London, 1927, colour plate XXXIII. This design was also used on ruby-back eggshell plates, as can be seen from the Duveen example sold in these Rooms, 4 December 1945, lot 53.

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