Asian Art I - 21st May 2014
Lot 217
A Chinese yellow ground dish four character Tongzhi mark and probably of the period
Estimate £1,500 - £2,500 | Hammer £3400
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Description
A Chinese yellow ground dish four character Tongzhi mark and probably of the period, decorated with a design for the wedding of the Dowager Empress Cixi's son, Zaichun, with bamboo leaf sprays, the reverse with three famille rose flower sprays, 22.4cm.
Provenance: formerly in a private Swedish collection, purchased in China in 1956.
Cf. R Longsdorf, The Tongzhi Imperial Wedding Porcelain, included in Chinese Ceramics, Selected Articles from Orientations 1982-1998, p.368, fig.17, where another dish of this pattern is illustrated.