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A PAIR OF VERTE-IMARI DISHES This type of pattern has been called the ‘Warsaw’ pattern because this
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722), CIRCA 1720 pattern was copied by European factories, such as Warsaw faïence in the
The dishes are each decorated and gilt with a central panel enclosing a vase latter part of the 18th century.
with fowers in a fenced garden, surrounded by a prunus trellis band with
alternating butterfy and chrysanthemum cartouches. Each rim is decorated A dish of the same size and pattern as the current lot was sold at Sotheby’s
with shaped panels enclosing birds and insects with fowers, alternating with 30th January 1985, lot 75, and came from the Mottahedeh collection, which
elaborate chrysanthemum and prunus sprays. Each reverse is decorated with was published in Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London, 1978, vol.
three fower sprays below a trellis border. I, pp. 144-145, cat. no. 126. A larger dish of the same pattern is illustrated
8¬ in. (22 cm.) diam.
in Christiaan J. A. Jörg, Famille Verte: Chinese Porcelain in Green EnameIs,
(2) Schoten, 2001, p. 52, plate 47. Compare an even larger pair (38.8 cm.)
which was sold at Christie’s London, 11 July 2006, lot 177, with the inventory
£3,000-5,000 $4,300-7,000 number N:279.
€3,500-5,700

清康熙 約1720年 五彩描金花卉紋盤一對
PROVENANCE
The collection of Augustus II, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, known as
Augustus the Strong, each base with incised Johanneum inventory mark N:127 I.

(marks)

254 Other fees apply in addition to the hammer price – see Section D of our Conditions of Sale at the back of this Catalogue