19TH CENTURY

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A FAMILLE VERTE SAUCER-SHAPED DISH
19TH CENTURY
Enamelled at the centre with a kingfisher grasping the stalk of a bullrush and peering into a lotus pond beside flowering lotus blooms and large lotus leaves, a cricket perched on the edge of one of the leaves, all below a butterfly in flight and a gilt moon, the border with four cartouches enclosing ruyi motifs alternating with flower heads and foliage on a seeded-green ground, the base with an apocryphal underglaze blue Chenghua mark within a double circle
10¾ in. (27.3 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

A larger dish with a similar design, dating to the Kangxi period and with two kingfishers, is in the collection formed by Augustus the Strong and now in the Dresden Porcelain Collection, illustrated by E. Ströber, La maladie de porcelaine ..., Berlin, 2001, no. 29, also illustrated by E. Zimmermann, Chinesisches Porzellan, Leipzig, 1913, vol. II, plate 93, and exhibited Porzellan Sammlung in Dresden, Im Zwinger, Staatlicher Kunstsammlung, Dresden, 1998, p. 67. A very similar dish to the present lot, but dating to the Kangxi period, was sold in these Rooms, 8 November 2005, lot 69.

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