Fine Chinese Paintings & Works of Art - 12th November 2019
Lot 143
A LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE AND IMARI DISH KANGXI/YONGZHENG Painted to the centre in the...
Estimate £4,000 - £6,000
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Description
A LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE AND IMARI DISH
KANGXI/YONGZHENG
Painted to the centre in the famille verte palette with women riding on horseback as a seated lady and her attendants look down from a raised covered terrace, the scene surrounded by lotus, peony, prunus, hibiscus, daisies and other flowers in enamels, underglaze blue and gilt, the underside with two sprays of peony, the base with a paper label for Zamek Lancucki, 34.5cm.
The design on this dish is known as 'The Generals of the Yang Family'. It depicts a scene from the Northern Song dynasty story of the Yang Family women preparing to go to war and defend the country after all the men in the family had already been wounded or killed by foreign invaders.
Provenance: formerly the Zamek Lancucki Collection, Lancut Castle, Poland.
Cf. Tokyo National Museum, Chinese Ceramics II, p.154, no.604 for a slightly larger dish from this service; see also Sotheby's Paris, 11th December 2014, lot 260 for a similar dish depicting the same scene.