Asian Arts

NOTE: The present dish relates in scale and form to dishes believed to have been made for the court, to be enameled in the Imperial workshops in Beijing with elegant floral sprays in famille rose enamels, such as the two dishes from the Qing Court collection, preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in "The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelains with Cloisonne Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration", Hong Kong, 2008, nos. 58, 59, pp. 68, 69. For other enameled 24-petal Chrysanthemum dishes, see the pair sold at Christie's Hong Kong, May 27, 2008, lot 1546, where the sending of undecorated blanks from Jingdezhen to the court for approval and enameling is discussed. For an undecorated white-glazed example similar to the present lot, compare the dish sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, October 9, 2007, lot 1533. Compare also the yellow-glazed example in the Collection of the Baur Foundation, illustrated in Laure Schwartz-Arenales, editor, "A Millenium of Monochromes from the Great Tang to the High Qing,", Milan, 2018, p. 342, no. 174.