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    Sale 6135

    Fine Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Chinese Export Art

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    15 June 1999

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    • A FAMILLE ROSE 'MUSICIAN' FOLI
    Lot 242

    A FAMILLE ROSE 'MUSICIAN' FOLIATE OVAL DISH

    YONGZHENG/EARLY QIANLONG

    Price realised

    GBP 4,370

    Estimate

    GBP 2,500 - GBP 3,500

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    A FAMILLE ROSE 'MUSICIAN' FOLIATE OVAL DISH
    yongzheng/early qianlong
    The centre decorated with a European strumming a lute and seated on pierced rockwork between flower sprays, all within a band of pink and gilt leafy scroll, a spearhead band at the well, and a colourful leafy scroll with birds and butterflies below the thickly moulded foliate rim, small frits to rim
    12 in. (30 cm.) wide

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    Lot Essay

    An identical dish of this rare shape and design is illustrated by F. and N. Hervout and Y. Bruneau, op.cit., 1986, p.187, fig.8.14. Compare the related plates and dishes with a central European figure, usually seated amongst scattered flower sprays and always enclosed within the same band of flowers and rocaille leaves illustrated by Hervout and Bruneau ibid., figs. 4.29, 6.62, 8.3, and 8.10; another is in the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, exhibited Hong Kong, 1989/90, Catalogue, no.39; and a plate from the Mottahedeh Collection is illustrated by D.S. Howard and J. Ayers, op.cit., 1978, vol.II, no.348, p.359.

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