A SET OF TEN FINE AND RARE FAMILLE ROSE DISHES Yongzheng Enamelled to the centre with a fan decorated with a pheasant on blue rockwork within a spotted bamboo frame, before flowering peonies and chrysanthemums, the handle of the fan extending over the diaper border, painted with panels formed as fruits borne on leafy stems, enclosing the sanduo and further flower sprays. 22.8cm (9in) diam. (10). Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 清雍正 粉彩盤一組十件 Provenance: Vandekar family collection, thence by descent The combination of peony flowers (fuguihua 富貴花), the 'king of flowers', and pheasants (jinji 錦雞), creates a rebus for the idiom jin shang tian hua, 錦上添花 (May you continue to enjoy abundance and betterment). A single related dish, 1730-1745, is illustrated in C.J.A.Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, London, 1997, p.220, no.249. An alternative design incorporating a pheasant on a fan, 1730-1750, is illustrated in S.G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989, p.250, fig.253. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing