Lot 65. A pink-glazed 'chrysanthemum' dish, Qianlong mark and period (1736-1795); 18cm, 7 1/8 in. Estimate 80,000-120,000 GBP. Lot sold 115,250 GBP. Photo Sotheby's

the sides finely moulded with forty-four fluted petals radiating from a slightly recessed flat centre to form a foliate rim, supported on a straight foot of conforming shape, covered overall in a rich pink glaze of crushed raspberry tone, the base left white with a six-character Qianlong mark within a double circle.

Provenance : John Sparks Ltd., London (according to label).

The Cartwright collection of Qing monochrome wares

Note: A closely related dish from the Goldschlager collection, included in the Min Chiu Society Exhibition of Monochrome Ceramics of Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1977, cat. no. 19A, was sold in our New York rooms, 24th March 1998, lot 658; another from the H.M. Knight collection was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 29th November 1979, lot 337; and a third dish from the collections of K.W. Woollcombe-Boyce and E.T. Hall, was sold at Christie's London, 4th June 1973, lot 214, and again in our Hong Kong rooms, 2nd May 2000, lot 555.

For a Yongzheng prototype, see a dish sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 15th May 1990, lot 68. The Qianlong dishes closely follow the Yongzheng examples with the exception of the tips of the petals which are slightly more rounded and the base left white in the later dishes.

Qianlong dishes of this type are known in various coloured glazes; see two examples, one of coral glaze and the other of turquoise glaze, illustrated in John Ayers, The Baur Collection, Geneva, vol. III, Geneva, 1972, pls A499 and A450 respectively; a celadon-glazed example included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Iron in the Fire, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1988, cat. no.83; a white glaze dish included in the exhibition The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1983, cat. no. 83; and a lemon-yellow example published in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 4, London, 2010, pl. 1832.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. London | 09 Nov 2011