Live Auction 5946European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries Part II
A LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE DISH
Lot 285 PROPERTY FROM A DESCENDANT OF THE LATE ANTON PHILIPS (285-287)

A LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE DISH

YONGZHENG/EARLY QIANLONG PERIODS, CIRCA 1730-1740

Closed17 April 2014

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A LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE DISH
YONGZHENG/EARLY QIANLONG PERIODS, CIRCA 1730-1740
Brightly and boldly enamelled and gilt with a pair of mandarin ducks in a lotus pond, the border with the Eight Daoist Immortals divided by rocks amongst crashing waves
13¾ in. (35 cm.) diam.

Anton Philips Collection, Waalre, bought in the 1930s-'50s.
Thence by decent to the present owner.

Specialist note

The combination of mandarin ducks and lotus, seen on the current dish, is especially auspicious. One word for lotus in Chinese, he, is a homophone for the word for harmony, while another word for lotus, lian, is homophonous to a word meaning successive. Thus, combined with a pair of mandarin ducks, which symbolize fidelity, they form an appropriate wedding motif wishing the couple a harmonious marriage blessed by the birth of many illustrious sons.