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42. PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN PLATES
Qing dynasty, Yong…
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42. PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN PLATES
Qing dynasty, Yong…
See original version (French)
Estimate €6,000 - €8,000
Voluntary lot
Description
42. PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN PLATES
Qing dynasty, Yongzheng period (1722-1735), Johanneum marks N=176
A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'FLORAL' DISHES
Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng period, engraved Johanneum marks N=176
Each delicately potted with gently rounded sides raised on a tapered foot, finely enamelled to the interior in the famille rose palette with brightly coloured leafy stems of entwined chrysanthemums, peonies and roses issuing lush blooms and smaller buds, the leaves naturalistically rendered in different tones of green, the base engraved with the mark N=176 highlighted in black.
22.2 cm (8 3/4 in.) diam. (2).
Provenance:
The Royal Collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, Dresden.
Collection of Augustus II ('The Strong') (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland (engraved Dresden inventory mark on the base of each dish reading N:176 and I).
清雍正 粉彩花卉紋盤一對 刻有約翰尼烏姆編號「N=176」
來源
薩克森皇室收藏，日本宮，德累斯頓
波蘭國王兼薩克森選侯奧古斯都二世（「強者奧古斯都」）收藏（每件盤底均刻有德累斯頓藏品編號「N=176」及「I」）
August Rex or Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony (1670-1733), was an avid collector of Chinese and Japanese porcelains for which he built the Johanneum in Dresden, a building that became known as the Japanese Palace. W. B. Honey notes that the porcelains belonging to the old collection of Augustus the Strong bear marks referring to an inventory begun in 1721. As on the present pair of dishes, these marks were engraved and coloured in black, see H.B. Honey, European Ceramic Art, pp. 337 and 338. The 1779 inventory of the Japanese Palace lists 'A Service painted with red and colored flowers comprising a hundred pieces large and small pieces... No. 176.' Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain, New York, 2008, p. 702.
Compare a dish in the Dresden Porcelain Collection, with the same inventory number, published in La Maladie de Porcelaine. East Asian Porcelain from the Collection of Augustus the Strong, Dresden, 2001, no. 31, p. 76. Compare also a smaller dish from the Mottahedeh Collection with the same Johanneum mark, illustrated by Johan Howard and John Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, p. 148, no. 128, where the authors also comment that the presence of a Johanneum mark "almost certainly indicates that the piece entered the collection before the death of King Augustus in 1733'.
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