A Large Painted Enamel 'Floral' Dish Yongzheng The interior painted with a large floral spray of flowering prunus, peonies and buttercups

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A LARGE PAINTED ENAMEL 'FLORAL' DISH Yongzheng The interior painted with a large floral spray of flowering prunus, peonies and buttercups, together with two butterflies, surrounded by three smaller floral sprays, within a puce border with floral scroll, the base with a bouquet of pimpernel flower, persimmon and finger citron. 41.5cm (16 3/8in) diam. Footnotes: 清雍正 畫琺琅花卉紋盤 Provenance: Augustus the Strong (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland (engraved Dresden inventory mark on the base of the dish reading N:266), recorded 1779 (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Palace Inventory 1779 Entry) Jeremy Mason, London Augustus the Strong (Augustus II), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland (1670-1733) was an avid art collector. He amassed an extensive collection of porcelain which was housed in the 'Japanese Palace' in Dresden. The inventory record for this piece is dated 1779 and reads 'Nine copper dishes of varying size, their ground lacquered in white and painted with flowers and butterflies in polychrome, the largest 2½ inches deep and 17½ inches in diam., the smallest 1½ inches deep and 11 inches in diam., many defective, No. 266.' Three companion dishes from the original set to which the present set belongs remain in the Dresden Porcelain Collection (inv.no.PO 973, 974 and 975). The last of these is published in R.Friedrich, Die Porzellansammlung Augusts des Starken. Porzellankunst aus China - Die Rosa Familie, München, 1993.