A FINE AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE PAIR OF YELLOW-GROUND FAMILLE ROSE PIERCED RIM DISHES

Lot 3032
30.05.2023 00:00UTC +00:00
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HKD 7 000 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 3032 | A FINE AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE PAIR OF YELLOW-GROUND FAMILLE ROSE PIERCED RIM DISHES
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HKD 7 000 000 – 9 000 000
A FINE AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE PAIR OF YELLOW-GROUND FAMILLE ROSE PIERCED RIM DISHES

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER IRON-RED SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Each dish is intricately enamelled in shades of blue, red, pink, yellow and green with a facetted geometric 'jewel' in the centre, surrounded by alternating lotus blooms and bats borne on scrolling tendrils, below a band of pendent leaves and florettes at the rim, all against a bright yellow ground. The wide everted rim of each dish is pierced with a band of perforations joined by gilt cords, between borders of trefoils and florettes. The turquoise-enamelled bases are inscribed with the reign marks in iron red.

15 1/2 in. (39.3 cm.) diam., box





Provenance

Samuel C. Davis (1871-1940), then to his granddaughter Alita Davis (with label on the dish), and thence by descent within the family
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