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 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.




















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