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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. AND MRS. ROBERT PROVENANCE:
YOUNG, VIRGINIA
Acquired in Hong Kong, 1988.
2267
AN UNUSUAL DAYAZHAI GRISAILLE AND PINK ENAMEL- A dish of this pattern, but of slightly smaller size (28 cm.), in the Beijing
DECORATED YELLOW-GROUND DISH Palace Museum collection is illustrated in Guanyang Yuci, Beijing, 2007,
GUANGXU PERIOD (1875-1908) p. 158, where one can see that the grisaille roses on the interior are not
highlighted in pale, shaded pink enamel, as on the present dish. And on
The dish has rounded sides and is fnely decorated on the interior the exterior the fower scroll decoration is in famille rose enamels on a
en grisaille with bees in fight amidst branches of peony, three of the white ground. This is also true of another dish similar to the dish in the
blossoms highlighted in shaded, pale pink enamel, and osmanthus, Palace Museum, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 December 2008, lot 2210.
interspersed with grasses, and is inscribed in iron red below the rim However, a Dayazhai bowl also in the Beijing Palace Museum Collection,
with the characters, Dayazhai, beside the tian di yi jia chun (Spring illustrated op cit., p. 157, which is similarly decorated with roses en grisaille
throughout the heaven and Earth as one family) seal mark, all on a on a yellow ground, does appear to have some added enamel color on the
yellow ground. The exterior is similarly decorated with fower scroll, blossoms.
the different fowers and buds also highlighted in pale pink enamel,
and the base has an iron-red yong qing chang chun mark. 清光緒 大雅齋黃地粉墨彩牡丹桂花紋盤
11¡ in. (29 cm.) diam. 礬紅「永慶長春」款
$6,000-8,000
