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A POLYCHROME ENAMELLED DISH
Qing dynasty, circa 1660-1670
28 cm diam.
Provenance: Naples, Villa della Floridiana, Museo Duca di Martina,Placido de Sangro (1829-1891) collection.
inv. n. 4952.
The well with a round medallion with lotuses,
peonies and other flowers enclosed by a band of ruyi-heads, the interior of
the wall with big flower corollas linked by shoots, all these decorative
elements reserved on a dense geometrical ground of lozenges.
Four dishes in Palazzo Pitti, Florence, belonged to the Medici family, have a very similar decoration, differing from the presence in the central medallion of two phoenixes (F. Morena, Dalle Indie orientali alla corte di Toscana. Collezioni di arte cinese e giapponese a Palazzo Pitti, Florence 2005, p. 110, n. 62); two other comparable examples are in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul (R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, 3 voll., London 1986, III, p. 1173, n. 2848); see also the similar dish in the MAK Museum, Vienna (inv. KE 8762).
