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Lot Essay
The decoration on this narcissus tray is representative of autumn.
The original line drawing of this shape shown above a sketch of the same pattern is illustrated by Guo Xingkuan and Wang Guangyao in Guanyang Yuci, Gugong bowuyan cang Qingdai zhici guanyang yu Yuyao (Official Designs and Imperial Porcelain: The Palace Museum's Collection of Official Porcelain Designs and Porcelains from Imperial Kilns of the Qing Dynasty), Beijing, 2007, pp. 186-87, no. 43. According to the note accompanying the sketch, four pairs of purple-ground and four pairs of pink-ground trays of this shape and pattern were commissioned. Another Dayazhai narcissus tray of this shape, but decorated with wisteria on a yellow ground, which is also illustrated in Guanyang Yuci, p. 178, no. 38, was sold at Christie's London, 3 November 2009, lot 222.
The original line drawing of this shape shown above a sketch of the same pattern is illustrated by Guo Xingkuan and Wang Guangyao in Guanyang Yuci, Gugong bowuyan cang Qingdai zhici guanyang yu Yuyao (Official Designs and Imperial Porcelain: The Palace Museum's Collection of Official Porcelain Designs and Porcelains from Imperial Kilns of the Qing Dynasty), Beijing, 2007, pp. 186-87, no. 43. According to the note accompanying the sketch, four pairs of purple-ground and four pairs of pink-ground trays of this shape and pattern were commissioned. Another Dayazhai narcissus tray of this shape, but decorated with wisteria on a yellow ground, which is also illustrated in Guanyang Yuci, p. 178, no. 38, was sold at Christie's London, 3 November 2009, lot 222.