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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
清雍正 鬪彩牡丹彩蝶圖盤
A DOUCAI ‘PEONY AND ROCK’ DISH 《大清雍正年製》款
MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG
來源：
the interior finely painted with two butterflies fluttering amidst 日本私人收藏
three colourful tree peony blooms, one bloom in yellow,
香港蘇富比2008年4月11日，編號2970
another lavender and the third iron red, all springing from the
same tree growing from the base of a large garden rock, the
rounded sides of the exterior painted with a chrysanthemum
on one side and hibiscus and pinks on the other, both similarly
flourishing from rocks with butterflies on each side, the base
inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark
within a double circle
21 cm, 8¼ in.

PROVENANCE
A Japanese private collection.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 11th April 2008, lot 2970.

HK$ 1,000,000-1,500,000
US$ 128,000-192,000

The design is striking for its combination of highly stylised Dishes of this type can also be found painted entirely in
rockwork, skilfully painted in washes of underglaze blue in the underglaze blue; for example see a pair of dishes included in
manner of ink painting, and the flowers executed in the bright the exhibition Ming and Ch’ing Porcelain from the Collection
doucai palette of glossy overglaze enamels. of the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of
Art, Hong Kong, 1978, cat. no. 86; and another single dish
A closely related dish, from the Woodthorpe and Aykroyd
illustrated in Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London,
collections, is included in the Oriental Ceramic Society
1951, pl. LXI.
exhibition Enamelled Polychrome Porcelain of the Manchu
Dynasty, London, 1951, cat. no. 99, and later sold in our London The design of butterflies and peonies has traditionally been a
rooms, 6th April 1954, lot 105 and again, 17th May 1966, lot favoured motif in China for its highly auspicious qualities, with
229. Two other related examples to the present pair were sold the peony symbolising wealth and honour, and the butterflies
in our Hong Kong rooms, 26th October 1993, lot 154, and 25th (hudie) representing the wish for ‘accumulation of blessings’
April 2004, lot 444; and another dish, from the collection of (fudie).
Dr and Mme Ho-Ching Yang, was sold in our New York rooms,
17th March 2009, lot 10.

Mark

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