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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF A LADY The scene depicted on the present dish is number nineteen from the Gengzhi
tu (Pictures of Ploughing and Weaving).This series was frst made during
1194 the Song Dynasty as a set of forty-fve scenes, as part of the didactics of
A FAMILLE VERTE ‘RICE PRODUCTION’ DISH teaching princes and oficials the necessity of sericulture and farming. In
the twenty-eigth year of the Kangxi reign (1689), the emperor ordered the
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) court painter Jiao Bingzhen to produce an album based on this series. In the
The dish is decorated with farmers sifting rice in a courtyard and a lady and thirty-ffth year (1696), sets of wood block prints were produced based on
a child inside a house in the background, accompanied by a poem describing Jiao Bingzhen’s album, comprising twenty-three illustrations of farming and
the scene. the same number of weaving.
13√ in. (35.2 cm.) diam.
清康熙 五彩耕織圖盤
$6,000-8,000
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