A LARGE 'FAMILLE-ROSE' 'LANDSCAPE' DISH YONGZHENG MARK

of ogee form, rising from a wedge-shaped foot, elaborately enamelled in blue, green, turquoise and sepia enamels with touches of pink, the interior with buildings by a craggy cliff among sterculia and pine trees leading on the left to a bridge with a scholar and an acolyte over a stream opening out to a river with two boats, the far bank with buildings shaded by trees at the foot of a craggy mountain range, the exterior with iron-red bats hovering above turbulent breaking waves, inscribed with a six-character Yongzheng mark in a double-circle

Collection of S.D. Winkworth.

Christie's London, 11th June 1990, lot 213.

Christie's London, 29th October 1990, lot 169.

International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935-36, cat. no. 2098 (mis-numbered 2749 on label).

This large and impressive dish is in good overall condition with the exception of a 3cm., hairline rim crack at the 5 o'clock position and a 0.5 x 0.3cm glaze chip near it. The interior and the rim with approx. 6 burst glaze bubbles, and another one to the base (circa 0.1 x 0.1cm). The green enamel of the leaves on the trees to the far middle right have slightly bubbled/misfired, as too have some of the pine needles on the branches of the pine tree towards the centre of the dish; there are two standing figures on a rocky outcrop towards the top right, both of their heads were probably drawn in black and this has been rubbed; otherwise the enamels are in good strong condition with no obvious flaking. Light glaze scratches to the exterior, the longest circa 3cm..
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