A FINE RUBY-BACK FAMILLE ROSE DISH
THE PROPERTY OF A CHINESE COLLECTOR
A FINE RUBY-BACK FAMILLE ROSE DISH

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A FINE RUBY-BACK FAMILLE ROSE DISH
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)

Thinly potted with shallow rounded sides rising to a broad everted rim, finely and elaborately enamelled and gilt with an elegant lady and three boys, one holding a sceptre, one playing a pipe, and the last standing at her feet, beside a bamboo table set with vessels, and a large jar, the border with pink cell-pattern reserved with three floral cartouches between narrow blue and green diaper bands, the reverse enamelled a deep ruby red
8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) diam., box
Provenance
Mr. Harold Hartog, K.B.E.
Sotheby's London, 3 June 1975, lot 146
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29 November 1977, lot 171
Sotheby's New York, 21 September 2006, lot 348
Exhibited
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Tausend Jahre Chinesische Keramik aus Privatbesitz, Hamburg, 1974, cat. no. 213

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Lot Essay

A dish of the same shape and decoration, from the Pierpont Morgan collection which was included in the National Antique and Art Dealers Association of America exhibition Art Treasures, Parke Bernet Galleries, New York 1967, and subsequently on loan at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1903-1905, was sold at Sotheby's London, 31 October 1972, lot 102. Compare also with a dish of this design illustrated by R.L. Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China, London, 1925, pl. LVI, fig. 2.

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