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拍品專文
The narcissus is a popular motif in Chinese art, and combined with rocks and lingzhi fungus, forms the phrase 'zhixian zhushou,' which can be translated as 'the (lingzhi) fungus fairy brings birthday greetings'. Dishes of this design were therefore traditionally used in special birthday celebrations.
Qianlong-marked dishes of this design are rare, and based on earlier Yongzheng prototypes, examples of which may be found in various museum and private collections, including one illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London, 1994, p. 135, no. 765; another in the Chang Foundation, illustrated by J. Spencer, Selected Chinese Ceramics from the Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1990, pp. 311-2, no. 137; one of similar size included in The Tsui Museum of Art; Chinese Ceramics IV; Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 144, and a fourth in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, p. 355, no. 1065.
Qianlong-marked dishes of this design are rare, and based on earlier Yongzheng prototypes, examples of which may be found in various museum and private collections, including one illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London, 1994, p. 135, no. 765; another in the Chang Foundation, illustrated by J. Spencer, Selected Chinese Ceramics from the Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1990, pp. 311-2, no. 137; one of similar size included in The Tsui Museum of Art; Chinese Ceramics IV; Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 144, and a fourth in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, p. 355, no. 1065.