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A FAMILLE VERTE ‘LADY AND BOY’ SAUCER-DISH 來源：Warmington & Co.，《Mersham Le Hatch大宅之家具陳設估
Kangxi 值清單》，1926年5月（英國梅德斯通肯特郡檔案處，Knatchbull文
Finely enamelled to the interior with an elegant lady holding a book in 件，U951 E14 U951 Z54-4）
her right hand and seated on a garden stool beside a table supporting 緬甸的蒙巴頓女伯爵（1924-2017）舊藏
a square vase holding branches of prunus, the lady’s tiny lotus foot
exposed slightly from underneath her long gown cascading in neat Patricia Edwina Victoria Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of
pleats, a boy beside her stands attentively gazing over the terrace with Burma, Lady Brabourne, CBE, MSC, CD (1924– 2017) was a British
gnarled rocks, all surrounded by a diaper-pattern band around the rim, peeress and the third cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. She was the elder
the base with channelled foot and a leaf within a double circle. daughter of heiress Edwina Ashley, a patrilineal descendant of the Earls
35.1cm (13 3/4in) diam. of Shaftesbury, first ennobled in 1661, and Admiral of the Fleet the 1st
Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Lady Mountbatten succeeded her father
£8,000 - 10,000 when he was assassinated in 1979, as his peerages had been created
CNY71,000 - 89,000 with special remainder to his daughters and their heirs.

清康熙 五彩教子圖盤 Dishes decorated in the famille verte palette with elegantly-dressed
women in gardens were popular during the Kangxi period. Dishes
Provenance: Warmington & Co., Inventory & Valuation of the Furniture of this type appear to represent the idealised concept of a cultured
at Mersham Le Hatch, May 1926 (Knatchbull Papers, Kent Archives, lady instead of a historical person, although the motifs were probably
Maidstone, U951 E14 U951 Z54-4) inspired by popular stories, paintings and prints. See a related dish,
Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1924-2017) Kangxi, illustrated in China Without Dragons: Rare Pieces from Oriental
Ceramic Society Members, London, 2016, p.315, no.187.
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