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Kangxi
Each painted with a floral-shaped medallion depicting a scholar holding a fan, accompanied by an attendant carrying a qin crossing a bridge, and two further scholars admiring the surrounding landscape by the shore, the cavetto with eight panels enclosing alternating landscape scenes and floral sprays issuing from rockwork, all reserved on a powder-blue ground embellished with gilt floral scrolls, two fitted boxes. Each: 40.8cm (16in) diam. (4).
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清康熙 灑藍地描金開光五彩携琴訪友圖盤一對
Provenance: S. Marchant & Son, London
An Italian private collection
Sotheby's New York, 22 March 2023, lot 593
Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Marchant, Recent Acquisitions, Qing Porcelain, London, 2011, no.10
Marchant, Kangxi Famille Verte, London, 2017, no.29
來源:倫敦古董商馬錢特
意大利私人收藏
紐約蘇富比,2023年3月22日,拍品編號593
馬錢特,《Recent Acquisitions, Qing Porcelain》,倫敦,2011年,編號10
馬錢特,《Kangxi Famille Verte》,倫敦,2017年,編號29
This work depicts the theme of 'Visiting a Friend with a ' (携琴訪友), a timeless subject in Chinese art. According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn period, the musician Boya regarded Zhong Ziqi as his closest friend. When Boya played the piece 'High Mountains and Flowing Water' (高山流水), Zhong Ziqi was able to understand the profound meaning of the music. Their friendship thus became celebrated as the ideal of (a person who truly understands another's heart). The theme of Boya carrying his , accompanied by a young attendant, to visit his friend was transmitted through the generations and became an enduring pictorial theme in Chinese art.
See a very similar large powder-blue-ground famille verte figural dish, 1700-1720, in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, illustrated in C.J.A.Jörg, , London, 1997, p.146, pl.158. See also a related large powder-blue-ground famille verte figural dish, Kangxi, illustrated in , New York, 1995, p.654.
See a similar large powder-blue-ground and gilt famille verte dish, Kangxi period, which was sold at Sotheby's New York, 11 September 2019, lot 880.