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A Selection of Qing Porcelains

The Property of a Lady

女史珍藏清代瓷器
女史珍藏清代瓷器
(Lots 989–1012)

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
ⱷ989
A SUSANCAI 'FLOWER AND FRUIT' BOWL
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A
The bowl with deep rounded sides rising from a slightly tapered foot is
decorated on the exterior with two butterflies fluttering near two flower sprigs,
and incised with a dragon beneath each sprig.
5√ in. (14.8 cm.) diam.

$50,000-70,000
PROVENANCE:
The Baoyizhai Collection.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 April 2014, lot 3119.
This unusual double decoration seems to only be found on bowls of this
design and corresponding dishes with pomegranates. A similar bowl is
illustrated in Treasures in the Royalty: The Official Kiln Porcelain of the
Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p. 67; another in the collection of
the Beijing Palace Museum is illustrated in Qingdai Yuyao Ciqi, vol. I, part I, (another view)
Beijing, 2005, pp. 142-3, no 37.

女史珍藏
清康熙 素三彩暗劃龍紋花果彩蝶紋盌 雙圈六字楷書款
來源:
抱一齋珍藏
香港蘇富比, 2014年4月8日, 拍品編號3119 THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
ⱷ990
A RARE INCISED YELLOW-ENAMELED FOLIATE `DRAGON' DISH because infusions made from its flowers are said to have health-giving
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF properties. The wish for longevity is made even more explicit in the incised
THE PERIOD (1662-1722) decoration on the dish. In the center of the dish the five-clawed imperial
The dish is elegantly potted with petal-lobed sides with barbed rim. The dragon (symbolizing the emperor) is depicted leaping above the waves.
Between its two front claws the dragon holds the Chinese character wan
interior is incised with a full-faced dragon writhing against a background of (ten thousand). Below the dragon is the character shou (longevity), while to
waves and clouds and surrounded by four characters, wan shou tian qi (ten his left and right are the characters tian (heaven) and qi (equal to). Thus the
thousand years of long life as boundless as heaven). The dish is covered overall four characters can be read as 'ten thousand years of long life as boundless
with a soft yellow enamel. as heaven'. The dish therefore carried the hope that the emperor would enjoy
(mark) 7¬ in. (19.3 cm.) diam. prosperity and extended long life, and thus would have been appropriate for
the celebration of an imperial birthday.
$70,000-90,000
女史珍藏
Four other dishes of this rare and auspicious design have been published.
One is in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Monochrome Porcelain, 清康熙 黃彩劃龍紋「萬壽齊天」花口盤
The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong,
1999, pl. 48. Another example in the Percival David Foundation is illustrated
by R. Scott, For the Imperial Court - Qing Porcelain from the Percival David
Foundation of Chinese Art, New York/Singapore, 1998, pp. 18, 50-51, no. 2.
The pair to the David dish, which was previously also in the Percival David
Foundation, was in the Meiyintang Collection and sold at Sotheby's Hong
Kong, 7 April 2011, lot 25, and is also illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics
from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London, 1994, no. 896. The fourth
example, formerly in the Paul Baerwald Collection and the Falk Collection,
was sold at Christie's New York, 16 October 2001, lot 152.
The form of the dish is skillfully molded in multi-petalled flower form.
The number of long slender petals suggests that the dish may have been
intended to represent a chrysanthemum, which is a symbol of longevity, (mark)

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