Christie's. For Imperial Appreciation: Fine Chinese Ceramics from the Greenwald Collection, 1 December 2010, Hong Kong
A fine and rare famille verte small 'Birthday' saucer, Kangxi six-character mark within double-circles and of the period
Lot 2812. A fine and rare famille verte small 'Birthday' saucer, Kangxi six-character mark within double-circles and of the period (1662-1722); 2 3/4 in. (7 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 1,000,000 - HKD 1,500,000. Price realised HKD 4,460,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2010
The saucer is finely and delicately potted with low rounded sides, the interior with a large peach, delicately shaded with green and iron-red enamels and further embellished with a stylised Shou character, the fruit growing on a short stem and detailed with leaves in two tones of green enamels, the glaze has a soft blue tinge on the base and stops at the foot, box.
Provenance: The Robert Chang Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 2 November 1999, lot 514
Greenwald Collection, no. 86
Exhibited: Christie's London, An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 2-14 June, 1993, Catalogue, no. 33.
Note: A pair of dishes of this small size and pattern is included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Qing Enamelled Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, Section 2, Revised Edition, 1991, p. 19, nos. 800 and 801, and is catalogued as being part of the 'Birthday Service' made for the celebration of the 60th birthday anniversary of the Emperor Kangxi in 1713.
Pair of dishes with peaches, Qing dynasty, Kangxi mark and period, about AD 1713. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue mark, translucent overglaze colours and gilding, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province; 6,8 diam. Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, PDF 800-PDF 801 © 2017 Trustees of the British Museum.
Larger dishes of this pattern are more common, cf. the dish (28.6 cm. diam.) in the Percival David Foundation, British Museum, illustrated by M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, Qing Porcelain: Famille Verte, Famille Rose, Thames and Hudson, 1987, p. 53, no. 57. See also a dish (28.6 cm.) of similar design in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, 1996, p. 304, no. 652; and another (28.8 cm.) with the gilt characters Wanshou in the Palace Museum, Beijing included in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 70, no. 53.
Serving dish with peaches, Qing dynasty, Kangxi mark and period, about AD 1713. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue mark, translucent overglaze colours and gilding, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province; 28,6 cm diam. Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, PDF 818 © 2017 Trustees of the British Museum.
Large plate with peach and the characters for "Ten Thousand Longevities", one of a pair, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Reign of the Kangxi emperor (1662-1722), China, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province. Porcelain with overglaze polychrome decoration (fencai). H. 2 1/2 in x Diam. 11 1/4 in, H. 6.3 cm x Diam. 28.6 cm. The Avery Brundage Collection, B60P2041. © 2017 Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture
Plate with peach and the characters for "Ten Thousand Longevities", Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Reign of the Kangxi emperor (1662-1722), China, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province. Porcelain with overglaze polychrome decoration (fencai). H. 2 in x Diam. 11 1/4 in, H. 5.1 cm x Diam. 28.6 cm. The Avery Brundage Collection, B60P8. © 2017 Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture
The painting of the peach on this exquisite small saucer differs in the use of "stippled" effects from the broadly painted peaches on the much larger dishes.