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A MASSIVE YELLOW-GROUND GREEN- AND Compare a closely related example in the Palace Museum,
AUBERGINE-ENAMELED ‘CHUXIUGONG’ Beijing, illustrated in Chen Kelun, ‘Huafan jinse yongqing
‘DRAGON’ CHARGER Changchun. Cixi he ta de yuyong ciqi [Flourishing blossoms
QING DYNASTY, GUANGXU PERIOD, CIRCA 1889 and splendid colors. Cixi and her imperial porcelain]’,
Forbidden City, September 2019, p.134; another, illustrated
the base with a four-character Chuxiugong zhi seal mark in in The Great Fortune Chinese and Japanese Porcelain
underglaze blue of the 19th and 20th Centuries and Their Forerunners,
Diameter 28 in., 71 cm Stuttgart, 2002, cat. no. 28, sold in our Hong Kong rooms,
8th October 2009, lot 1621; and a third example sold in these
PROVENANCE
rooms, 19th June 2002, lot 70.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 20th-21st May 1987, lot 592.
Sotheby’s London, 19th June 2002, lot 70. $ 60,000-80,000
Porcelains of this type, with Chuxiugong zhi mark, were
specifically commissioned for the Dowager Empress Cixi 清光緒 約1889年 黃地紫綠彩雲龍趕珠
when she was living at the Chuxiu Palace. The origin of its 紋大盤
design can be traced back to Kangxi period, as illustrated by
an example in the Percival David Collection, illustrated in in 《儲秀宮製》款
Margaret Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome
Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 來源
London, 1978, no. 146, p.46. However, the size of wares 香港蘇富比1987年5月20至21日，編號592
with this mark are significantly larger than their Kangxi 倫敦蘇富比2002年6月19日，編號70
prototypes, making them extremely challenging to fire
successfully.

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