A pair of fine Chinese export foliate dishes, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng period, circa 1730
清雍正 約1730年 粉彩開光人物花卉圖花式盤 一對

The 'semi-eggshell' dishes decorated to the centre with four ruyi-shaped panels depicting a lady and boy alternating with a long-tailed birds on a flowering branch around a central flowerhead roundel, all reserved on a ground of gilt-painted scrolling stems and lotus flowers in blue enamel, the everted border with an octafoil rim decorated with four butterfly and flowering foliage cartouches reserved on a pink diaper-pattern ground and embellished with prunus and peach blossom sprays, the underside with four lotus sprays bearing deep and pale pink flowers

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Dimensions: 21cm diameter

Santos, London

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Please refer to a similar singular dish sold at Christie's, London, 8 November 2005, lot 105, highlighting the rarity of dishes in this foliate form, suggesting this form of dish would have been extremely expensive to order at the time of production.

There is also a set of twelve very similar plates housed in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, England.

Literature: R. L. Hobson, 'Chinese Porcelain and Wedgwood Pottery', London, 1928, no. 530, plate 70; no. 529.