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VARIOUS PROPERTIES (reverse)

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A FAMILLE ROSE RUBY-BACK SAUCER DISH
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)

The interior is fnely enameled with Liu Hai holding a string of cash
as he balances on the back of his three-legged toad, with a young boy
carrying a scroll beside him. The underside of the rim is covered in a
bright rose-pink enamel.

8 in. (20.3 cm.) diam.

$30,000-40,000

PROVENANCE

An important Rotterdam family collection, The Netherlands.
Sotheby’s Amsterdam, 30 October 1980, lot 317.

Liu Hai is the Daoist god of Wealth and Prosperity and is invariably
accompanied by his three-legged toad. A ruby-back dish of very similar form
and size depicting the immortal Li Tieguai is in the Boymans-van Beuningen
Museum, Rotterdam, illustrated by C. J. A. Jörg, Oriental Porcelain, 1995, no.
26. Another similar dish, depicting a lady riding a deer, from the collection of
B. Curie, Farnborough, Hants, is illustrated in Catalogue of the International
Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935-6, no. 2208,
pl. 204, p. 188.
清雍正 粉彩劉海戲蟾圖盤

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