
Juliette Hammer
Sale Coordinator
This auction has ended. View lot details


Sold for £24,320 inc. premium
Our Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialist
Sale Coordinator

Specialist

Specialist, Chinese Works of Art

Head of Chinese and Asian Art, London
清雍正 粉彩麻姑獻壽圖大盤
Provenance: Augustus the Strong (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland (engraved Dresden inventory mark on the base of the dish reading N:183 I)
An English private collection, acquired prior to 1930
來源: 奧古斯特二世(1670-1733),薩克森選帝侯和波蘭國王(底部刻有德累斯頓庫存編號:N:183 I)
英國私人收藏,獲得於1930年前
The incised number on the present lot indicates that this plate was in the collection of Augustus the Strong (Augustus II), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland (1670-1733). As an avid art collector, he amassed an extensive collection of porcelain which was housed in the 'Japanese Palace' in Dresden. The inventory record for this piece is dated 1779 and reads 'Fifty differing dishes painted with pagods, stags, trees and flowers. The largest is 2½ in. deep, 18½ in. in diam. No. 183'.
According to the inventory records at Dresden, dishes of this type were presumably acquired in 1727. See a similar famille rose 'Magu' dish, Yongzheng period, from the same collection and bearing the same inventory number, illustrated in La maladie de porcelaine: East Asian Porcelain from the Collection of Augustus the Strong, Leipzig, 2001, p.78.
The motif depicted in the present lot is 'Magu Celebrating Longevity' (Magu xiansho 麻姑獻壽). The Daoist Immortal Magu, revered as the Goddess of Longevity, is portrayed on her journey to the renowned peach banquet hosted by the Queen Mother of the West who rules over the garden of the peaches of longevity. The scene incorporates many symbols of longevity and Immortality, including the lingzhi fungus, the deer, blossoming prunus, and peaches, all of which underscore the auspicious theme of enduring life and vitality.
See a similar famille rose 'Magu' dish, Yongzheng, which was sold at Sotheby's New York, 17 March 2021, lot 282.