Lot 3642. A fine Famille-Rose 'Butterfly and Flower' dish, mark and period of Yongzheng (1723-1735); 15 cm., 5 7/8  in. Estimate 120,000 — 180,000 HKD. Lot Sold 237,500 HKD. Photo: Sotheby’s.

the shallow rounded sides rising from a slightly tapered foot, the interior decorated in vibrant enamels with two fluttering butterflies in the centre, surrounded by four various floral sprigs, including chrysanthemum and aster blossoms.

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8th April 1992, lot 181.

Note: A Yongzheng dish with related decoration, but centred by a flower spray, is illustrated in Beatrice Jansen, Chinese Ceramiek: Catalogus van de verzameling in het Haags Gemeentemuseum, Lochem, 1976, no. 325.