A FINE AND RARE IMPERIAL MINTGREEN-GROUND PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE LOTUS TRAYS ON CARVED WOOD STANDS

Estimated Value:

8.000 € - 12.000 €

Result:

46.620 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

China, iron-red Jiaqing seal marks and period
B. je 15,2 cm
The flat, lobed sides have a four-leaf cross-section and rest on four slightly curved, elongated, iron-red decorated feet. The interior of the tablet, presumably used for the tea ceremony, is decorated with four lotus blossoms around a central blossom next to tendril work, all details in shades of shaded pink, blue and green on a mint green ground, the base has an iron red six-character seal in a white field in the centre, finely carved wooden stands.
From a North German merchant family, collected in China between 1911 and 1928.
Cf. a yellow-ground pair with a poem about tea auctioned at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 'Imperial Porcelain and Works of Art from a Hong Kong Private Collection', 7.4.2015, lot 3119 - Minor wear to enamels

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