A PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT FAMILLE ROSE 'MAGU' PLATES. Qianlon...
Hammer
£200
A PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT FAMILLE ROSE 'MAGU' PLATES. Qianlong, circa 1750, each painted in famille rose enamels to the centre with a shaped cartouche enclosing the immortal Magu carrying a long handled hoe hung with a basket of flowers and accompanied by a spotted deer, before a kneeling attendant holding up a lingzhi fungus, beneath a pine tree and flowering prunus with a crane in flight and further lingzhi to the foreground, the deep well and broad rim scattered with flower sprays, butterflies and beetles beneath an iron red and gilt interlaced border and a brown edged rim. (2) 23.5cm diameter
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A PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT FAMILLE ROSE 'MAGU' PLATES. Qianlong, circa 1750, each painted in famille rose enamels to the centre with a shaped cartouche enclosing the immortal Magu carrying a long handled hoe hung with a basket of flowers and accompanied by a spotted deer, before a kneeling attendant holding up a lingzhi fungus, beneath a pine tree and flowering prunus with a crane in flight and further lingzhi to the foreground, the deep well and broad rim scattered with flower sprays, butterflies and beetles beneath an iron red and gilt interlaced border and a brown edged rim. (2) 23.5cm diameter
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