19th Century, Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Jewellery and Wine
Live Virtual Auction, 11 - 13 April 2021
Oriental Works of Art
Lot Estimate
ZAR 450 000 - 550 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 1 365 600
About this Item
A rare Chinese famille-verte dish, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi period, 1662-1722
the centre finely enamelled with Magu wearing iron-red and green robes holding a ruyi scepter, beside a cart bearing gifts of longevity, luck and happiness drawn by a spotted deer, accompanied by a female attendant holding a bundle of scrolls and linghzi, with three bats flying above, enclosed by a double blue-line border, the exterior with three continuous bands in underglaze-brown of different forms of shou enclosed by double blue-line borders, raised on a low foot, apocryphal underglaze-blue six-character Chenghua mark,39,5cm diameter
Notes
cf. Sotheby's, Important Chinese Art, 4 November 2020, lot 193.
Provenance
Purchased from Bernheimer Fine Arts, Ltd., 32 St George Street, London, WIR 9FA, 19 June 1989.
Property of a Connoisseur.
Literature
A dish of this pattern is in the Victoria & Albert Museum and is illustrated in a handbook of the WG Gulland Bequest of Chinese Porcelain, pl XXXVIII, as well as in Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 112, cat no. 102.