Lot 2189. A puce-enameled chrysanthemum dish, 18th-19th century; 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 7,000 - USD 9,000. Price Realized USD 8,125. © Christie's Images Ltd 2014. 

The dish is potted with shallow rounded sides molded as narrow chrysanthemum petals surrounding a plain center on the interior, and rising from the correspondingly lobed shallow ring foot, and is covered inside and out in a deep pink enamel, box.

Provenance: Private collection, Japan, formed in the 19th century.

Note: A chrysanthemum dish of similar color and size, but with a Qianlong mark on the base, is illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, p. 245, no. 916.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 20 - 21 March 2014