Fine Chinese Paintings & Works of Art - 12th November 2019
Lot 146
A PAIR OF LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE 'FLOWER BASKET' DISHES KANGXI 1662-1722 Each painted with a...
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Description
A PAIR OF LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE 'FLOWER BASKET' DISHES
KANGXI 1662-1722
Each painted with a roundel containing a basket of flowers, the design surrounded by variously shaped panels enclosing sprays of lotus, lily, prunus, camellia, peony and other flowers against a green ground, the rims decorated with cartouches containing pomegranates, melons and peaches divided by ruyi-heads reserved on floral patterns, each with a large artemisia leaf mark to the base, 37.6cm. (2)
Cf. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, accession nos.1955-50-63 and 1955-50-64 for an almost identical pair of dishes with similar decoration and the same mark on the base.