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A POLYCHROME PAINTED RUBY-GROUND DISH
Qing dynasty, Yongzheng period
22,5 cm diam
Provenance: Naples, Villa della Floridiana, Museo Duca di Martina, Placido de Sangro (1829-1891) collection.
inv. n. 3571.
The style of the decoration on this dish is obviously reminiscent of similar experiments made during the Kangxi reign, when monochrome ground such as the powder blue, here substituted by the ruby red colour, were combined with scenes painted with ‘Famille Verte’ enamels.
The well shows a fisherman with his wife and child on a sampan, fishing in the water of a lake surrounded by rocks, hills, a pagoda and a hut, the scene inserted in a cartouches shaped as a pomegranate (shiliu), a symbol of fertility because of its many seeds and a wish for offspring.
