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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
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A PAIR OF FINE AND RARE YANGCAI Flower forms were regularly adopted with great success by Chinese
potters as early as the Song dynasty, one of the most successful
CHRYSANTHEMUM DISHES examples of which being the Ru lotus-form warming bowl in the
National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Grand View: Special
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE Exhibition of Ju Ware from the Northern Sung Dynasty, Taipei, 2006,
WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
pp. 126-129, no.26. In the Yongzheng reign, the chrysanthemum form
Each dish is moulded with twenty-four petals rising from a straight became especially popular with the court and was produced with
foot ring, and finely enamelled to the centre with two peony a number of monochrome glazes, such as the twelve monochrome
chrysanthemum dishes in the Palace Museum, Beijing, see The
blossoms in pink and iron-red borne on branches with leaves in Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Monochrome
green enamels of graduated tones, amid magnolia branches and
Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pp. 282-283. This form continued to find
asters. favour in the succeeding Qianlong period. It is interesting to note that
6 ¡ in. (16.3 cm.) diam., box (2) the chrysanthemum form of the current dish has been slightly modified
from that seen on monochrome wares. The number of petals has been
HK$15,000,000-20,000,000 US$2,000,000-2,600,000 reduced in a more gently undulating style. Undoubtedly these sensitive
modifications were made in order that the form should complement the
PROVENANCE enamelled decoration without detracting from it.
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 May 2008, lot 1546

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