M5784/5
£23,500
Description
Pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte saucer dishes, each with upright sides and painted with hanging baskets of flowers, one basket of facetted form with fishermen in a river landscape while the basket contains pine branches, bamboo and prunus, sanyou, The Three Friends of Winter, the other facetted basket with a faux-marbled design and displaying lotus flowers, leaves, pods, arrowheads and other plants, the undersides glazed white.
Kangxi, 1662-1722
8 1/8 inches, 20.6cm diameter.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From the collection of Reginald and Lena Palmer, collection number 414, together with label.
- Previously in the R. R. J. C. Collection, nos. 141 and 142, together with label.
- Exhibited at the Manchester City Art Gallery Exhibition, 1913, nos. 349 and 349A, together with label.
- Also bearing an Oriental Ceramic Society label and included in the exhibition of Enamelled Polychrome Porcelain of the Manchu Dynasty, 1644-1912, London, 1951, nos. 26 and 27; included by Sir Harry Garner, KBE., CBE in The Exhibition of Enamelled Polychrome Porcelain, 1951, volume 26; one is illustrated pl. 21.
- Sold by Frank Partridge & Sons, London, May 1936.
- Sold by Christie’s Hong Kong in their auction of The Palmer Family Collection, Autumn 2024, lot 1511.
Condition
One in excellent condition, the other with two hair cracks and painted over chip restored.
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