A large 'famille-rose' ruby-ground birthday dish mark and period of Jiaqing

well potted with shallow rounded sides sitting on a splayed foot, rising to a wide everted rim pierced with a band of circular holes, decorated in the centre with a diaper patterned lantern, encircled by four smaller tasselled lanterns alternating with four lotus blooms on dense meandering stems within a border of linked pendant leaves and beads in the cavetto, the holes to the rim outlined in gilt and strapped together with iron-red twine, between lotus and ruyi-head borders, the underside similarly decorated, with a raised blue enamel key-fret band encircling the foot, all reserved on a rich ruby ground, the base turquoise

A similar example from the Weishaupt Collection is illustrated in Gunhild Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure, London, 1987, pl. 21; another was sold in these rooms, 19th November 1986, lot 268; and a third was sold in our New York rooms, 3rd June 1992, lot 257.  Compare also a turquoise-ground Jiaqing dish of this shape and design sold in these rooms, 30th October 2002, lot 258. 

Related dishes are also known without the open-work at the rim; see a slightly smaller yellow-ground dish with this painted decoration illustrated in Liu Liang-yu, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, Taipei, 1991, vol. 5, pl. 27 top; and another dish of this design with a lime-green ground included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, vol. II, Tokyo, 1981, pl. 102.