Provenance:
- Private Collection, Paris, France
- Gatchina Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia
Condition Report Available
€ 15,000
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A saucer dish, decorated on the biscuit with sancai glazes with rounded sides and a slightly everted rim. The dish is decorated with three galloping horses amongst rolling waves with large white waves around the edge. Plum blossoms and auspicious objects from the Hundred Treasures (baigu 百古) are scattered on the background. The horses probably refer to the eight legendary magical steeds of King Mu Wang – each having its own special power. Around the outside rim is a similar decoration, with three more horses amongst waves and swirls, with additional green rocks. It stands on a high foot-rim.
The beribboned auspicious emblems on this dish include a conch shell, an artemisia leaf (disease prevention), an open lozenge (triumph) and the wish-granting pearl.
There is a similar dish in the Sir Michael Butler collection which is illustrated in Butler, Medley & Little, ‘Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain in the Butler Family Collection’ (1990) p.180, pl.124. Another similar example can be found in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum (79.267.1) and a smaller dish of this type decorated with one galloping horse is on display at the Guimet Museum in Paris (cat. no. 146).
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