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A LARGE INCISED FAMILLE-VERTE BISCUIT 清光緒 約1889年 素三彩花卉暗刻龍紋大盤
‘FLORAL’ ‘CHUXIUGONG’ CHARGER
QING DYNASTY, GUANGXU PERIOD, CIRCA 1889 《儲秀宮製》款
the base with a four-character Chuxiugong zhi seal mark in 來源
underglaze blue
Diameter 18½ in., 47.2 cm Georg Weishaupt (1906-2004) 收藏，編號842
阿姆斯特丹蘇富比1995年10月16日，編號60
PROVENANCE
展覽
Collection of Georg Weishaupt (1906-2004), no. 842. 《Van keizerrijk tot volksrepubliek》，海牙市立美術館，
Sotheby’s Amsterdam, 16th October 1995, lot 60.
海牙，1986年，編號39
EXHIBITED 《From the Dragon’s Treasure: Chinese Porcelain from the
19th and 20th Centuries in the Weishaupt Collection》，
Van keizerrijk tot volksrepubliek / From Empire to People’s
Republic, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 1986, cat. 應用藝術博物館，法蘭克福及装饰艺术博物馆，
no. 39. 柏林，1987年，編號164
From the Dragon’s Treasure: Chinese Porcelain from
the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Weishaupt Collection,
Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt and Museum für
Kunsthandwerk, Berlin, 1987, cat. no. 164.
The Chuxiugong (Palace of Gathering Elegance) was one of
the six Western palaces in the Forbidden City, favored by the
Empress Dowager Cixi and her chief residence between 1856
and 1885. Ronald W. Longsdorf in ‘The Tongzhi Imperial
Wedding Porcelain’, Orientations, October 1996, p. 70, notes
that Cixi had the palace refurbished on her 50th birthday
in 1884 with luxurious objects of monumental size, many
modeled after prototypes from the 18th century. The
combination of incised dragons with flower and rockwork
painted in yellow, green and aubergine enamels is derived
from Kangxi period porcelains, such as a smaller dish in
the National Palace Museum, Taipei (accession no. 故瓷
004406N000000000).
Only two other large ‘Chiuxiugong’ chargers of this design
are known. The first, of the same size as the present
example, in the collection of Simon Kwan, is illustrated in
Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1983, cat. no. 96 and front cover.
The second example, 64 cm in diameter, was sold at
Christie’s New York, 13th September 2019, lot 1144.

$ 20,000-30,000

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