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A RARE PAINTED ENAMEL ‘ROMANCE A FINE AND RARE PAINTED ENAMEL
OF THE WESTERN CHAMBER’ DISH ‘ROMANCE OF THE WESTERN
18th century CHAMBER’ DISH
Finely painted with a scene from the 14th 18th century
century drama Xixiangji with Yingying and Finely enamelled with a scene from the Yuan
her mother attending a Buddhist service at a play Xixiangji with Zhang Sheng in reverie
temple and the scholar Zhang Sheng seeing imagining his love Yingying crossing a stream,
her for the first time, the exterior with a border the exterior with a border of fruit and flowers,
of fruit and flowers on a white ground. the base with a two-character seal mark.
15.8cm (6 1/4in) diam. 15.7cm (6 1/4in) diam.
£2,500 - 3,500
CNY23,000 - 32,000 £3,500 - 4,500
HK$27,000 - 38,000 CNY32,000 - 41,000
HK$38,000 - 49,000
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Provenance
552 Sydney Moss Ltd. London (label)

The painting on the present and on the
following lot is stylistically comparable to a
set of four, also depicting literary scenes and
attributed to the Beijing workshops in the
Yongzheng period, illustrated by J. A. Lloyd
Hyde, Chinese Painted Enamels, The China
Institute in America, New York, 1970, no 46.

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