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| 83 A very fine, large painted enamel dish Yongzheng to early Qianlong period Diameter: 17 3/4 in, 45 cm exquisitely decorated in the famille-rose palette with scholars in lakeside pavilions amid a mountainous landscape with various trees including pine and wutong. One scholar crosses a bridge, leaning on a stick and followed by his servant, who carries a wrapped qin. The base is painted with a poem in fine calligraphy followed by two seals, and the sides are freely painted in shades of blue with rocks, flowers and bamboo. Such landscapes in Chinese taste are more usually seen on porcelain.
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| The poem, composed by Chen Gongyin, on the dish illustrated in Lloyd Hyde, Chinese Painted Enamels from Private and Museum Collections, nos. 43–5, pp. 27–9, and shown on the cover, appears to be written by the same calligrapher and bears identical seals. A dish painted in a similar palette and style is illustrated in Arapova, Chinese Painted Enamels, pl. 95. For another, smaller dish painted with a lake, thought to be at Hangzhou, see Bushell, Chinese Art, Vol. II, fig. 100. |
