543 - A pair of fine Chinese export foliate dishes, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng period, circa 1730 清雍正 約1730年 粉彩開光人物花卉圖花式盤一對 | Santos Collection The 'semi-eggshell' dishes decorated to the centre with four ruyi-shaped panels depicting a lady and boy alternating with a long-tailed birds on a flowering branch around a central flowerhead roundel, all reserved on a ground of gilt-painted scrolling stems and lotus flowers in blue enamel, the everted border with an octofoil rim decorated with four butterfly and flowering foliage cartouches reserved on a pink diaper-pattern ground and embellished with prunus and peach blossom sprays, the underside with four lotus sprays bearing deep and pale pink flowers Size:(21cm diameter) Qty: (2) Provenance: Santos, London 來源： 桑托斯收藏 Notes: Please refer to a similar singular dish sold at Christie's, London, 8 November 2005, lot 105, highlighting the rarity of dishes in this foliate form, suggesting this form of dish would have been extremely expensive to order at the time of production. There is also a set of twelve very similar plates housed in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, England. Literature: R. L. Hobson, 'Chinese Porcelain and Wedgwood Pottery', London, 1928, no. 530, plate 70; no. 529. 可參閱一件相類之單件盤例，售於倫敦佳士得，2005年11月8日，編號105。此類花口形制之盤極為罕見，反映出其在生產當時定製成本極高。 此外，英國波特陽光城利弗夫人美術館亦藏有一套共十二件極其相似之盤例。 出版： R. L. Hobson 著，《Chinese Porcelain and Wedgwood Pottery》，倫敦，1928年，編號530，圖版70；及編號529。 There are minor frits to the rim and foots, general wear to the surface and enamels consistent with age, some light overspray to the underside of both dishes, one to the wide rim and the other to the well, all visible from images.