Lot 315
  • 315

A FAMILLE-VERTE 'FIGURAL' DISHQING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD |

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • Diameter 10 3/8  in., 26.4 cm
brightly enameled with a continuous scene of idealized domesticity, depicting a young mother elegantly attired in Han-style robes, a feather fan clasped in one hand, standing attentively with two small boys, the younger playfully gesturing with a calligraphy brush as the other hides shyly behind, all amid a luxuriant balustraded garden setting with freely painted mountains looming in the distance and the sun shining overhead, the underside white-glazed, coll. no. 225

Provenance

Berwald Oriental Art, London, 2000.

Condition

Restoration to rim frits, a small rim chip with an associated hairline crack measuring apprx. 1 inch and expected wear to enamels. Scattered nicks to the foot.
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Catalogue Note

Depictions of idealized feminine beauty were popular during the early Qing dynasty. Virtuosity, motherhood, and refinement were expected of young women and portrayals in text, song and painting were meant to encourage the archetype.  A closely related dish of this type in the Palace Museum, Beijing is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 101.