Page 149 - Chinese Works of Art Chritie's Mar. 22-23 2018

818
A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ‘BONELESS STYLE’ FLORAL DISHES
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
Each dish is delicately enameled on the interior with a blossoming and budding rose branch opposite
a slender, leafy stem bearing yellow fowers, and a blue aster.
6 in. (15.4 cm.) diam., cloth box
(2)
$30,000-50,000

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s London, 11 May 2011, lot 281. (marks)
The decoration on this pair of dishes is executed in the ‘boneless’ technique, so called because the
design is painted without the use of outlines. This style of decoration is perhaps the least common of the
enameling techniques used at Jingdezhen as it was too complicated to use on a mass production scale,
and if not handled well, gives the impression that the piece was unfnished. The technique is discussed
in detail by R. Scott, ‘18th Century Overglaze Enamels: the Infuence of Technological Development on
Painting Style’, Style in the East Asian Tradition, Percival David Foundation, London, 1987, pp. 158-164.
A pair of very similar Yongzheng-marked ‘boneless style’ dishes was sold at Christie’s New York,
18-19 September 2014, lot 961.
清雍正 粉彩沒骨花卉盤一對 雙圈六字楷書款

147