Une superbe assiette à glaçure blanche - Dynastie Qing, marque et époque Yongzheng (1723-1735)

A superb white-glazed chrysanthemum dish, Qing dynasty, mark and period of Yongzheng.

circulaire avec un haut rebord de pétales à l'imitation d'une fleur de chrysanthème, le pied couvert d'une riche glaçure blanche, marque en kaishu à six caractère Yongzheng dans un double cercle en bleu sous couverte sous la base. diam. 17.7 cm, 7 in. Estimé: 40,000—50,000 EUR

LITERATURE AND REFERENCES: Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 748.

Chinese Ceramic Treasures, a Selection from the Ulricehamn East Asian Museum, Including The Carl Kempe Collection. The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 2002, p. 379, no. 939.

CATALOGUE NOTE:

A white-glazed chrysanthemum dish is included among a set of twelve dishes of Yongzheng mark and period, each glazed in a different colour, from the Qing court collection and still in Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi. Yongzheng. Qianlong. Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 316, pl. 145. Compare also a dish, from the collections of the Hall Family and Mrs. William van Horne, sold in our London rooms, 14^th November 1967, lot 136, and again, in our Hong Kong rooms, 2^nd May 2007, lot 551.

According to Feng Xianming, the records of the Palace Workshops of the eleventh year of the Yongzheng reign, corresponding to A.D. 1733, include an Imperial decree that Nian Xiyao, Minister of Imperial Household, should send 'twelve colours of chrysanthemum dishes, one of each colour, for inspection... and that an order be granted... for forty pieces to be fired of every type' (see Essays on Chinese Old Ceramics by Feng Xianming, Hong Kong, 1987, p. 267).

Sotheby's Paris. From Neolithic to Qing, Chinese Ceramics from Two Private Collections from two European collections. 12 Juin 2008