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A LARGE FAMILLE VERTE ‘ROMANCE OF THE WESTERN A FINE PAIR OF LARGE FAMILLE VERTE ‘THREE KINGDOMS’
CHAMBER’ SAUCER-DISH SAUCER-DISHES
Kangxi Kangxi
Well potted with a channelled foot, the interior finely enamelled with a Each finely enamelled with a martial scene of soldiers and horsemen
scene of a young scholar surrounded by his attendant and two senior dueling with spears and swords, one dish depicting the swarthy
monks in a temple spurring a courageous and strong monk holding general Zhang Fei with bushy beard, the other with general Guan Yu
a rod, all surrounded by a band of six shaped panels enclosing qin, with distinctive halberd and red beard enamelled in red, all surrounded
qi, shu, hua and antiques, the underside with a blue and white mark with a diaper border at the rim.
painted within a double circle. 35.5cm (13 3/4in) diam. Each 39cm (15 1/4in) diam. (2).

£4,000 - 6,000 £12,000 - 15,000
CNY36,000 - 54,000 CNY110,000 - 140,000

清康熙 五彩西廂記圖大盤 清康熙 五彩三國演義故事圖大盤 一對

Provenance: Bonhams London, 5 November 2007, lot 209. Provenance: Sotheby’s London, 14th May 2008, lot 616
An English private collection An English private collection

來源： 來源：
2007年11月5日於倫敦邦瀚斯拍賣，拍品209號 2008年5月14日於倫敦蘇富比拍賣，拍品616號
英國私人收藏 英國私人收藏

The scene painted on the present lot is from Act II of the Romance The two dishes depict the real historical figures of Guan Yu 關羽
of the Western Chamber, ‘The Alert at the Monastery’. The young (died AD219) and Zhang Fei 張飛 (died AD221) who were glorified in
scholar Zhang Junrui standing in the centre has given the fighting the Ming Dynasty historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms,
monk Huiming, with the rod, a letter asking General Du Que for his attributed to Luo Guanzhong. Their martial exploits were spread by
help against the bandits who have surrounded the monastery and are professional storytellers as well as in operas and novels.
trying to seize Zhang’s lover, Cui Yingying. See a bowl with the same
scene, illustrated and explained by C.J.A.Jorg, Famille Verte: Chinese
Porcelain in Green Enamels, Amsterdam, 2011, p.99. The same
scene can also be seen on a large dish in the Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford (acc.no.C.466). A similar dish with the same theme was sold at
Christie’s New York, 27 January 2014, lot 355.

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