A PAIR OF PAINTED ENAMEL SAUCER-DISHES
Yongzheng/Qianlong
One decorated with a bearded gentleman carrying a feather fan and boy attendant carrying a vase of lotus sprays in a pavilion garden, the other with the Immortal Magu on a tree raft before an overhanging cliff, both with hemp-stroke painted rocks, the undersides with fruiting vines and peony stems, the bases with phoenix roundels. Each 21.5cm (8 1/2in) diam. (2).
Footnotes:
清雍正/乾隆 銅胎畫琺瑯人物圖盤一對

Provenance: William Clayton Ltd., London
John E. Bodie OBE (1930-2023), London, collection no.107

來源： 倫敦古董商 William Clayton Ltd.
大英帝國官佐勳章獲勳人John E. Bodie(1930-2023)，倫敦，藏品編號107

Compare with a painted enamel vase with similar decoration of a female Immortal on a raft, and similar hemp-stroke fibre rocks, Qianlong seal mark and of the period, in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Enamels, 5, Beijing, 2011, pp.106-107, no.72. See also a related painted enamel dish decorated with the Immortal He Xiangu, Yongzheng, illustrated in Chinese Painted Enamel, Oxford, 1978, p.38, no.39. See also a related set of four painted enamel dishes, Yongzheng, illustrated by J.A.Lloyd Hyde, Chinese Painted Enamels, New York, 1969, no.46.

See also the painted enamel 'Magu and deer' saucer-dish, Diao yue geng yun four-character mark, Yongzheng, which was sold at Bonhams London, 7 June 2021, lot 663.

In good overall condition. Some light wear to the enamels and gilding, and minor dents.