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AN EXTREMELY RARE PURPLE-ENAMELLED This chrysanthemum dish is rare for its rich purple enamel
‘CHRYSANTHEMUM’ DISH and only one other closely related piece appears to have
MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG been published, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, included in
the exhibition China. The Three Emperors 1662-1795, Royal
the delicate shallow rounded sides exquisitely moulded in the Academy of Arts, 2005, cat. no. 172 (second row, left),
form of slender fluted petals with pointed tips radiating from probably the dish also illustrated in The Complete Collection
a slightly recessed flat centre simulating a chrysanthemum of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Monochrome Porcelain,
bloom, all supported on a foot of corresponding form, covered Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 257 (centre, second from left). Another
overall save for the footring and the centre of the base with purple dish of somewhat darker tone, with the enamel similarly
a rich reddish-purple enamel, the white centre of the base covering part of the base, from the Carl Kempe and Meiyintang
inscribed with an underglaze-blue six-character reign mark collections, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from
within a double circle the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 4, London, 2010, pl. 1830, was
17.5 cm, 6⅞ in. sold in these rooms, 8th April 2013, lot 4.

PROVENANCE The Yongzheng Emperor is recorded to have commissioned
Christie’s Hong Kong, 3rd November 1998, lot 926. Nian Xiyao, Supervisor of the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen,
J.J. Lally & Co., New York. to produce chrysanthemum dishes in twelve colours, forty
pieces of each. The commission is dated the 27th day of
HK$ 3,000,000-5,000,000 the 12th month of the 11th year of the Yongzheng reign,
US$ 387,000-645,000 corresponding to 1733. However, no original complete set
of twelve dishes is preserved and chrysanthemum dishes of
清雍正 葡萄紫釉菊瓣盤 the Yongzheng period are known in many more than twelve
《大清雍正年製》款 colours. The Palace Museum, Beijing, has indeed published
dishes covered in thirteen different tones, which have been
來源： assembled from different sources, and at least six further
香港佳士得1998年11月3日，編號926 colours are recorded elsewhere. Hajni Elias in ‘In the path
J.J. Lally & Co.，紐約 of Tao Qian: “Chrysanthemum” wares of the Yongzheng
emperor’, Arts of Asia, May-June 2015, pp. 72-85, discusses

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