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A LARGE YELLOW-GROUND GREEN AND AUBERGINE-ENAMELED 'DRAGON' CHARGER CHUXIUGONG MARK, QING DYNASTY, GUANGXU PERIOD
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description
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the interior body incised with two leaping dragons picked-out in green and aubergine enamels contending a 'flaming pearl' amid billowing clouds and flame motifs, the deep cavetto with flowering branches of lotus, peony, prunus, chrysanthemum and peach blossom, with six dragons in alternating aubergine and green enamels in pursuit of 'flaming pearls' at the everted rim, with four larger dragons beneath a band of cranes and clouds to the underside, all reserved on a rich egg-yolk yellow ground, the base with a four-character 'chu xiu gong zhi' mark in underglaze-blue
Provenance
Imperial Oriental Art, New York, 2004.
Condition
Restoration to one section of the rim, covering approximately 36 cm around the circumference of the rim, likely concealing small chips. Minor firing imperfections elsewhere.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
Three closely related dishes, also with Chuxiugong marks, were sold in our Hong Kong rooms: the first, from the collection of George Weishaupt, illustrated in The Great Fortune. Chinese and Japanese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries and their Forerunners, Stuttgart, 2003, pl. 28, sold, 8th October 2009, lot 1621; the second, 20th May 1987, lot 592, and again in our London rooms, 19th June 2002, lot 70; and the third sold in 1974, in 1977, and most recently, 13th November 1990, lot 360.
The Chuxiugong (Palace of Gathering Elegane) is one of the six Western palaces in the Forbidden City, favored by the Empress Dowager Cixi and her chief residence between 1856 and 1885. Ronald W. Longsdorf in ‘The Tongzhi Imperial Wedding Porcelain’, Orientations, October 1996, p. 70, notes that Cixi had the palace refurbished on her 50th birthday in 1884, with luxurious objects of monumental size, many modeled after prototypes from the Kangxi period. For the prototype of this dish, see a Kangxi mark and period in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch’ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Tokyo, 1980, vol. 1, pl. 34.