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A pair of blue and white ‘three friends of winter’ saucer dishes
Guangxu six-character marks and of the period
Each with a central circular cartouche featuring pine trees, prunus,
bamboo and lingzhi amongst rockworks within two double-circled
borders, the exterior painted with a continuous scene of a lady seated
within a dwelling isolated by balustrades, peering at two boys catching
butterflies in the wilderness beneath a willow tree, the base with a six- Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p.489.
character Imperial kaishu mark in underglaze-blue.
17.8cm diam. (2).
HK$250,000 - 500,000
US$32,000 - 65,000
清光緒 歲寒三友圖盤一對 青花「大清光緒年製」楷書款
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See a comparable pair of blue and white ‘three friends of winter’ dishes
dated to the Tongzhi period with similar designs, in the Shanghai
Museum, Shanghai, illustrated in Qingdai Ciqi Shangjian, Hong Kong,
1994, p.259, no.342. See also another comparable example of a blue
and white ‘three friends of winter’ dish dated to the Xuantong period
with similar designs, in the Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, illustrated in
Treasures in the Royalty. The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing
盤敞口，弧壁，圈足，盤心繪松竹梅三友，盤外壁繪通景人物庭苑圖。
此同題材的歲寒三友圖亦見於乾隆、嘉慶官窯青花上，後朝一直沿襲
燒製。見上海博物館藏一對清同治款歲寒三友圖盤，著錄於《清代瓷
器賞鑑》，香港，1994年，圖版342；另見南京博物院藏一件宣統款歲
寒三友圖盤，著錄於《宮廷珍藏中國清代官窯瓷器》，上海，2003，
頁489。