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Lot Essay
The cover of the Japanese wood box accompanying this lot has an inscription by Baron Nobumori Ozaki (1880-1966) describing this piece as “Yongzheng famille rose prunus, lingzhi, and magpie charger,” followed by a 27th year of Showa (1952) date. Baron Nobumori Ozaki (1880-1966) was born to a prominent Kyoto family and inherited the Baron title from his father in 1918. He was one of the earliest scholars of Oriental ceramics in Japan.
Magpies in the branches of prunus trees form a rebus xi shang meishao (May you have happiness up to your eyebrows). The particular ‘magpie and prunus’ design on the present dish appeared in at least as early as the Qianlong period (1736-1795). A Qianlong famille rose ‘magpie and prunus’ bottle vase in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Splendors of a Flourishing Age, Macau, 1999, no. 113.
Magpies in the branches of prunus trees form a rebus xi shang meishao (May you have happiness up to your eyebrows). The particular ‘magpie and prunus’ design on the present dish appeared in at least as early as the Qianlong period (1736-1795). A Qianlong famille rose ‘magpie and prunus’ bottle vase in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Splendors of a Flourishing Age, Macau, 1999, no. 113.