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15 décembre 2016

A fine and very rare café-au-lait-glazed chrysanthemum dish, Yongzheng six-character mark and of the period

 A fine and very rare café-au-lait-glazed chrysanthemum dish, Yongzheng six-character mark within double-circles and of the period (1723-1735)

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Lot 2926. A fine and very rare café-au-lait-glazed chrysanthemum dish, Yongzheng six-character mark within double-circles and of the period (1723-1735);  6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 2,500,000 - HKD 3,500,000 (USD 330,000 - USD 450,000). Price Realised HKD 2,900,000 (USD 374,030). © Christie's Images Ltd 2011.

The rounded sides moulded to the interior and exterior as petals rising to a scalloped rim, supported on a similarly shaped short foot, covered overall in a lustrous coffee-brown glaze, the base white 

ProvenanceThe K.W. Woollcombe-Boyce Collection (no. 17) 
The E.G. Kostolany Collection
The Lorant Goldschlager Collection 

LiteratureA. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, Oxford, 1984, p. 223, fig. 14 

NotesChrysanthemum-shaped dishes from the Yongzheng period were made in a series of twelve colours, a complete set in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing is illustrated in Monochrome Porcelain,The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, pp. 282-283, no. 257. Six are illustrated by Feng Xianming, Wenwu, 1984, p. 37, no. 10, where the author notes that a decree was issued in the eleventh year of Yongzheng (corresponding to 1733) instructing Nian Xiyao, Minister of the Imperial Household, to send 'the twelve colours of chrysanthemum dishes, one of each colour, for the inspection of the permanent guardian of the treasury and chief eunuch Samuha'. The decree further mentions 'forty pieces to be fired of every type according to the samples'.

Other similar Yongzheng cafe-au-lait glazed dishes are published, one in the Capital Museum, Beijing, illustrated by Xiong Liao, Beauty of Ceramics: Gems of the Official Kilns, Taipei, 1993, pl. 153; one included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition, Monochrome Ceramics of Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1977, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 95; and one with a pale cafe-au-lait enamel in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in the Catalogue, Section 6, no. B597

Compare a similar brown-enamelled chrysanthemum dish, previously in the H. M. Knight and the Hall Family Collections, and also exhibited at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Iron in the Fire, 1988, The Oriental Ceramic Society, Catalogue, no. 90. This brown chrysanthemum dish was sold at Christie's New York, 21 September 2004, lot 305

Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 30 November 2011, Hong Kong

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