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A FAMILLE ROSE 'LOTUS VIEWING'
LARGE DISH
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)
The large dish is decorated to the interior with a
scene depicting the emperor, the empress and
court ladies on a large canopied boat, surrounded
by further ladies and attendants in smaller
boats, viewing lotus blossoms on a pond. The
rim is decorated with four leaf-shaped fgural
cartouches reserved on a seeded-ground with
fowering branches.
17 in. (43.2 cm.) diam.
£5,000-8,000 US$6,300-9,900
€5,700-9,000
PROVENANCE:
With Cohen and Cohen, London.
Compare to a similar decorated dish also from
the Yongzheng period sold at Christie's London,
30 April 2015, lot 87.

清雍正 粉彩采蓮圖大盤
來源:
倫敦古董商 Cohen and Cohen

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A FAMILLE VERTE 'WATER MARGIN' DISH
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The dish is fnely decorated to the centre with three military characters from
the popular novel The Water Margin, Shuihu Zhuan, each holding a sword,
a polearm and a book, their armour fnely enamelled and highlighted in gilt.
The base has a three-character Wenxin Zhai mark in underglaze blue within a
double-circle.
8¿ in. (20.7 cm.) diam.
£5,000-8,000 US$6,300-9,900
€5,700-9,000
Two of the three fgures on the present dish can be identifed by the signs
suspending from their belts as characters from the popular novel Shuihu
Zhuan: The fgure on the right holding a sword is Liu Tang, standing opposite
Dai Zong holding a polearm. This dish belongs to a set of decorated dishes
similarly inspired by Chen Hongshou's illustrations in The Water Margin,
published in 1657. A distinct feature of these dishes is the absence of any
backdrop or complementary pattern in the background. Compare to a set of
four similar decorated dishes in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London,
one illustrated in Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty
1644-1911, London, 1986, p. 102-103, no. 81. Another dish from the Shanghai
Museum is illustrated by Wang Qingzheng, Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the
Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, p. 305, no. 132. Compare
also to another dish sold at Christie's New York, Marchant: Nine Decades in
Chinese Art, 14 September 2017, lot 741.
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清康熙 五彩「水滸傳」盤

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