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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION 清康熙 五彩獻寶圖萬壽無疆盤
A FAMILLE-VERTE 'BIRTHDAY' DISH, 《大清康熙年製》款
MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI
來源：
25.5 cm
紐約佳士得1993年12月2日，編號293
PROVENANCE 香港蘇富比1994年11月1日，編號63
Christie's New York, 2nd December 1993, lot 293. 天民樓收藏，香港
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 1st November 1994, lot 63. 展覽：
Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong.
《好古敏求：敏求精舍三十五週年紀念展》，香港藝
EXHIBITED 術館，香港，1995年，編號135
In Pursuit of Antiques: Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition of
the Min Chiu Society, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong,
1995, cat. no. 135.
HK$ 1,000,000-1,500,000
US$ 128,000-192,000

The present dish is a rare example of a group of finely potted no. PDF.890, included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing
and painted 'birthday' dishes, featuring auspicious themes Enamelled Wares, London, 1973, pl. 890. A related dish with
of longevity, made at the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen, most beauties offering double-gourd and lingzhi is in the Cleveland
likely to commemorate the Kangxi Emperor's (r. 1662-1722) Museum of Art, Cleveland, accession no. 1964.220,
sixtieth birthday in 1713. illustrated in The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection,
A pair of birthday dishes, with one depicted with two beauties Cleveland, 1990, pl. 70.
holding an ewer and a jue, and the companion dish painted A similar example was sold in our New York rooms, 15th
with ladies holding a double-gourd and a basket of lingzhi September 1999, lot 87. Compare also a related pair of
fungus, is in the Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne, birthday dishes painted with the same auspicious design,
accession nos F 63,72, published in Porzellanschätze der but smaller in size and with scalloped rims, formerly in the
Kangxi-Zeit / Porcelain Treasures of the Kangxi Period, collection of T.Y. Chao, sold three times at auction: first in
Hetjens Deutsches Keramikmuseum, Dusseldorf, 2015, pls these rooms, 28th-29th November 1978, lot 301, again at
7 and 8. Another similar dish, formerly in the Elphinstone Christie's Hong Kong, 17th January 1989, lot 663, and most
Collection, is now on loan from the Percival David Foundation recently in our New York rooms, 22nd September 2020,
of Chinese Art to the British Museum, London, accession lot 107.

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