Property from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold, sold to benefit the Arnhold Foundation
A LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE-ROSE 'MAGU' DISH, QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG PERIOD
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May 1, 05:39 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Property from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold, sold to benefit the Arnhold Foundation
A LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE-ROSE 'MAGU' DISH, QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG PERIOD
with curved sides rising from a short straight foot to an everted rim, the interior finely painted with the Daoist immortal in flowing robes holding lingzhi, accompanied by a boy attendant and a deer with a peach blossom in the mouth, overhanging prunus branches above, the rim border with floral sprays, all enameled in delicate pastel shades, the rim gilt, the base with incised Japanese Palace inventory number N=183-I.
Diameter: 15⅛ in. (38.5 cm.)
The Royal Collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, Dresden
Vanderven & Vanderven, 's-Hertogenbosch (acquired in 2006)
Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain, 1710-50, New York 2008, no. 366, p. 703, illustrated
An almost identical dish with the same Japanese Palace inventory number is in the Dresden Porcelain Collection, illustrated in Eva Ströber, "La maladie de porcelain"... Ostasiatisches Porzellan aus der Sammlung Augusts des Starken, Berlin, 2001, pl. 32, where it is noted that such pieces likely entered the collection in 1727.