Page 38 - Sotheby's Arts of Asia Paris, June 16, 2022

18
PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION 清康熙 五彩臨潼斗寶圖大盤
AN EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE FAMILLE-VERTE 來源 :
‘LINTONG DOU BAO’ CHARGER 倫敦蘇富比， 2003年6月12日， 編號222
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD 倫敦佳士得，2006年11月7日 ，編號189
Galerie 41，摩納哥，2007年3月31日
55.5 cm, 21⅞ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s London, 12th June 2003, lot 222.
Christie’s, London, 7th November 2006, lot 189.
Galerie 41, Monaco, 31st March 2007.
Grand plat en porcelaine de la famille verte à décor d’une
scène de ‘Lintong dou bao’, dynastie Qing, époque Kangxi

‡ 20 000-30 000 €

This awe-inspiring charger, superbly painted with vivid Chu country, displayed intelligence and strength, and earned
enamels of the famille verte palette with a lively and dense the respect of all the other feudal princes by holding up for
scene of a lavish court banquet, is a particularly fine example display ‘a thousand jin heavy ding’. Thus, Wu Zi Xu was able to
of a distinguished group of large dishes created during the save his country from the threat of Prince Qin Mu.
Kangxi period (1662-1722). With the composition extended A similar large charger depicting the same scene is preserved
to the edge of the plate, they represent veritable paintings in the Palace Museum, Beijing (accession no. xin-99638),
on porcelains. When compared to its counterparts, the illustrated in Ye Pei-Lan, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong: Qing
enamelling of the present piece is exceptionally impressive Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong,
for its wealth of colour and meticulous detail. Another 1989, p. 68, pl. 51.
noteworthy feature of the present piece is the extensive
application of blue enamel across the dish. Since blue enamel Similar depictions of court scene can also be found on
had only been developed during the Kangxi reign, the colour related chargers: a large dish showing a banquet scene
scheme of this charger might have been devised specifically from the novel Romance of Sui and Tang in the Jie Rui Tang
to exhibit the new colour that recently became available. Collection, illustrated in Jeffrey P. Stamen, Cynthia Volk and
Yibin Ni, A Culture Revealed. Kangxi-Era Chinese Porcelain
The scene on this large charger depicts the story of ‘The from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, Bruges, 2017, pl. 10, recently
Contest of Treasures of Lintong’ dating from the Spring and sold in our New York rooms, 19th March 2019, lot 349; see
Autumn era (772 - 481 BC) and popularized by the Yuan also two other chargers, one sold in our New York rooms,
dynasty play Lintong Dou Bao. 11th April 1987, lot 199, depicting a similar banquet scene,
The story tells the tale of a competition organized by the other from The Hon. Mrs Nellie Ionides (1883-1962) at
Prince Qin Mu of Qin country to conquer and intimidate his Buxted Park collection, sold twice in our London rooms, 18th
neighbours, whereby each feudal prince was to display the February 1964, lot 230, and more recently 11th May 2022, lot
wealth of his country. At this competition Wu Zi Xu, Prince of 80, depicting the Emperor entertained by court dancers.

36 SOTHEBY’S COMPLETE CATALOGUING AVAILABLE AT SOTHEBYS.COM/PF2207 37