Lot 78. A famille-rose and lemon-yellow enameled 'flower basket' dish, Mark and period of Yongzheng (1723-1735). Diameter 5⅞ in., 14.9 cm. Estimate: 50,000 - 70,000 USD. Lot sold: 100,800 USD. © Sothebys.

the base with a six-character mark within a double circle in underglaze blue.

Literature: Rose Kerr et al., Chinese Antiquities from the Wou Kiuan Collection. Wou Lien-Pai Museum, Hong Kong, 2011, pl. 146.

Note: It is extremely rare to find this combination of famille-rose enamels on a lemon-yellow back dish. The same design is seen on a pair of smaller (11.5cm) saucer dishes with gilded undersides, formerly in the collection of H.M. Knight, included in the exhibition The Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1963, cat. no. 211 and sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 1st November 1999, lot 392. Two ruby-back saucer dishes of the same design are also known. The first, formerly in the collections of Charles Russell (1866-1960), Barbara Hutton (1912-1979) and T.Y. Chao (1912-1999) was sold twice in our Hong Kong rooms, first on 29th November 1976, lot 624, and again 1st November 1999, lot 394. The second was illustrated in the Yamanaka catalogue of An Exhibition of Early Chinese Bronze, Jade and Ceramic Art, Yamanaka & Co., London, 1930, cat. no. 143. 

Sotheby's. A Journey Through China's History. The Dr Wou Kiuan Collection Part 1, New York, 22 March 2022