A Pair of Chinese Famille-Verte 'Flower Basket' Dishes, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period | 清康熙 五彩盆花圖盤一對
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each painted in the center with a large basket of lotus, peonies and other blossoming flowers, enclosed by a border with panels of flowering plants reserved on a stippled diaper ground decorated with prunus branches, the base with an artemisia leaf within a double-circle and both with incised Japanese Palace inventory number N=99-I.
Diameter: 8½ in.
21.6 cm
The Royal Collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, Dresden
Ralph M. Chait Galleries New York, 17 July 2005;
Collection of Henry H. Arnhold;
Sotheby's New York, 24 October 2019, lot 418;
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50, New York, 2008, no. 356, pp. 685-686, illus.
The 1721 inventory of the Japanese Palace lists ‘In Oct. 1723 His royal Majesty bought from the merchant Frantz Heinrich Konsprucke…99. 13 Dzn. round dishes painted with different flower baskets.’, Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, p. 686. Seven examples of variant design, bearing No. 99, are in the Porzellansammlung, Dresden, but one identical plate also survives (P.O. 6704).
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