A RARE AND IMPORTANT CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE

A RARE AND IMPORTANT CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE CHRYSANTHEMUM DISH, Yongzheng mark, probably 1723-1735, diameter: 16,5 cm, height: 3 cm, weight: 202 g. Verso a label: Tessier Serrou... 17 juiN 1923. For comparison see a dish, lot 3129, which was sold at Christie's Hongkong on November 30th, 2016. Alain.R.Truong noted on the dish auctioned at Christie's: The current dish belongs to a very small group of finely enamelled dishes from the Yongzheng period, which are of chrysanthemum form and are painted with variously arranged flowers within a roundel to the centre. Two types of dishes from this group exist, one is moulded with twenty-four lobes, which are found in two size groups, with the present dish belonging to the larger group measuring 23 cm. in diameter, and a smaller group ranging between 15.5-16.5 cm. in diameter. Only one other example in this size is known, which was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 26 April 1998, lot 510, and may have formed a pair with the current dish. Dishes of the smaller size include a pair with almost identical composition sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 May 2008, lot 1546 and another in The Tianminlou Collection, illustrated in Chinese Porcelain: The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, no. 96, which has a similar composition to the Palace Museum examples. See http://www.alaintruong.com/archives/2016/11/29/34626746.html . Provenance: Central German private collection.