A large incised famille-verte biscuit 'floral' 'Chuxiugong' charger, Qing dynasty, Guangxu period, circa 1889 | 清光緒 約1889年 素三彩花卉暗刻龍紋大盤 《儲秀宮製》款

Collection of Georg Weishaupt (1906-2004), no. 842.

Sotheby's Amsterdam, 16th October 1995, lot 60.

Georg Weishaupt (1906-2004) 收藏，編號842

阿姆斯特丹蘇富比1995年10月16日，編號60

Van keizerrijk tot volksrepubliek / From Empire to People's Republic, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 1986, cat. no. 39.

From the Dragon's Treasure: Chinese Porcelain from the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Weishaupt Collection, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt and Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Berlin, 1987, cat. no. 164.

《Van keizerrijk tot volksrepubliek》，海牙市立美術館，海牙，1986年，編號39

《From the Dragon's Treasure: Chinese Porcelain from the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Weishaupt Collection》，應用藝術博物館，法蘭克福及装饰艺术博物馆，柏林，1987年，編號164

The Chuxiugong (Palace of Gathering Elegance) was 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 18th century. The combination of incised dragons with flower and rockwork painted in yellow, green and aubergine enamels is derived from Kangxi period porcelains, such as a smaller dish in the National Palace Museum, Taipei (accession no. 故瓷004406N000000000).

Only two other large 'Chiuxiugong' chargers of this design are known. The first, of the same size as the present example, in the collection of Simon Kwan, is illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1983, cat. no. 96 and front cover. The second example, 64 cm in diameter, was sold at Christie's New York, 13th September 2019, lot 1144.