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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE LIME-GREEN-GROUND FOLIATE- 清嘉慶 粉彩綠地御製詩文海棠式茶盤一對
RIMMED OVAL TRAYS 礬紅六字篆書款
JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN IRON-RED AND OF THE PERIOD
(1796-1820) 來源:
Each dish is decorated to the centre of the interior with a shaped cartouche 香港佳士得1989年9月26日，拍品750號
enclosing an inscription in iron-red, ending with a Jiaqing dingsi cyclical date, 重要私人珍藏
corresponding to 1797, all surrounded by foral scrolls on a lime-green ground
divided by gilt bands at the well and rim. The exterior is similarly decorated
with lotus blooms and scrolling foliage and the dish is supported on four low
feet highlighted in iron-red.
6¿ in. (15.6 cm.) wide (2)
£20,000-30,000 US$25,000-37,000
€23,000-34,000
PROVENANCE: (marks)
Christie's Hong Kong, 26 September 1989, lot 750.
These types of wares were used as trays to support one or two tea cups and The poem inscribed on the present lot may be found on a small number of
covers. It is noted that before the Qianlong reign (1723-1735), tea trays were Jiaqing-period teapots and tea-trays. S.W. Bushell translates the poem in
mainly made from lacquer. Paintings depicting Qing court scenes suggest Oriental Ceramic Art, London, 1981 (1896), p. 239 as:
that sets of three porcelain tea wares; a cup, a cover and a tray, were more
frequently used from the Yongzheng period (1723-1735) onwards. 'Finest tribute tea of the frst picking
An identical dish with the same imperial inscription is in the collection of the And a bright full moon prompt a line of verse.
National Palace Museum, Taipei. A lively fre glows in the bamboo stove,
Another, is illustrated by Soame Jenyns in Later Chinese Porcelains, the The water is boiling in the stone griddle,
Ch'ing Dynasty, 1644-1912, London, 1951, pl. CXI. Small bubbles rise like ears of fsh or crab.
Of rare Ch'i-ch'iang tea, rolled in tiny balls,
One cup is enough to lighten the heart,
And dissipate the early winter chill.'

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