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倫敦蘇富比1959年6月30日，編號76
Bluett & Sons，倫敦，1959年7月17日
J. Chase Gilmore 收藏
1982年贈與一南方機構

Exhibition
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1974-1982 (on loan).

展覽
芝加哥藝術博物館，芝加哥，1974至1982年（借展）

Catalogue Note
This refined dish with its spare and auspicious decoration is part of a set made at the imperial kilns in Jingdezhen and most likely
commissioned to celebrate the 60th birthday of the Kangxi emperor in 1713. Rosemary Scott in For the Imperial Court: Qing
Porcelain from the Percival David Foundation, London, 1997, p. 48 suggests that these dishes may not have been used during the
imperial banquets but, perhaps presented to esteemed guests as commemorative gifts.

The present dish and its pair were loaned to the Art Institute of Chicago by J. Chase Gilmore between 1974-1982, until one was
gifted to the museum and remains in their collection (acc. no. 1982-1294) (fig. 1).

A similar dish is in the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai and illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum
Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, pl. 186. Another example is published in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang
Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, pp. 154-5, no. 786 where the author comments on the auspicious decoration as it forms a
homophone for 'red bats arranged in order on the sky.' A dish of this type was sold twice in our Hong Kong rooms, first on 5th June
1997, lot 1487 and again 2nd June 2016, lot 896. See also a related dish, decorated with a central roundel enclosing a shou
character, in the Palace Museum, Beijing illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Miscellaneous
Enamelled Porcelains Plain Tricoloured Porcelains, Hong Kong, 2009, pl.18.

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