Lot 1803. A famille rose ruby-back dish, 18th century; 8 3/16 in. (20.8 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 10,000 - USD 15,000. Price realised USD 15,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2011.  

Finely painted in the interior with a lady seated beside two large wine jars, a corner-leg incense stand and a basin of fruit as she watches three young boys play with a small dog, all beneath a narrow blue cell-border, the everted rim painted with dragon roundels and fruit and flower-shaped cartouches framing further floral sprays, reserved on a pink cell ground, the exterior covered ruby-pink enamel. 

Provenance: Property of Hartman, Rare Art, Inc.; Sotheby's, New York, 5 JUne 1985, lot 325.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Part I and Part II Including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, 24 March 2011