Live Auction 1147European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries
AN UNUSUAL CHINESE RUBY-BACK SAUCER-SHAPED DISH
Lot 61 The Property of a European Collector (lots 57-65)

AN UNUSUAL CHINESE RUBY-BACK SAUCER-SHAPED DISH

YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)

Closed2 October 2013

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GBP 16,250

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AN UNUSUAL CHINESE RUBY-BACK SAUCER-SHAPED DISH
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)
Finely and delicately enamelled with Liu Hai holding a string of cash as he balances on the back of his three-legged toad, a young boy carrying a bundle of scrolls beside them, the exterior under an even deep pink glaze
8 in. (20.4 cm.) diam.

Specialist note

Liu Hai is the Daoist god of wealth and prosperity and is invariably accompanied by his three-legged toad. A ruby-back dish of very similar form and size depicting the immortal Li Tieguai is in the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, illustrated by C.J.A. Jörg, Oriental Porcelain, 1995, no. 26. It is very unusual for gods and immortals to be depicted on ruby-back porcelain.