Lot 77. A pair of famille rose ruby-back saucer dishes, Yongzheng period (1723-1735). Each 11.5cm (4 1/2in) diam. Sold for £6,875 (€8,872). © Bonhams 2001-2016. 

Delicately potted, each with semi-eggshell thin bodies, one dish enamelled to the interior with white and yellow chrysanthemums, the other with prunus and peony, both backs covered in a ruby enamel. (2). 

Provenance: M.H.Turner Collection, no.21 (label on one dish)
An English private collection

Note: Compare with a related pair of small ruby-back dishes, decorated with peony in famille rose enamel, but with Qianlong mark, illustrated in Ming and Qing Chinese Arts from the C.P.Lin Collection, Hong Kong, 2014, p.189, pl.92.

Bonhams. AUCTION 23237: FINE CHINESE ART, LONDON, NEW BOND STREET