Lot 808. A pair of famille-rose 'Auspicious Emblems' dishes, Guangxu marks and period (1875-1908). Diameter 6 in., 15.2 cm. Estimate 7,000 — 9,000 USD. Lot sold 10,625 USD. Courtesy Sotheby’s.  

each finely decorated to the interior with interlinked composite floral scrolls encircling a central floret, all surrounded by beribboned 'Eight Auspicious Emblems' around the cavetto, the exterior with three detached scrolling floral sprigs, the base with a six-character mark in iron red (2).

Provenance: A Beijing collector, acquired in the 1940s.
Gifted in the 1970s to a Canadian missionary family in China, and thence by descent.

Sotheby's. Saturday at Sotheby's: Asian Art, New York, 16 Sep 2017