Details A PAINTED ENAMEL RUBY-BACK DISHYONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)The dish is decorated on the interior with a seated lady looking into a bronze mirror beside two boys at play, all within a diaper band on the cavetto. The everted rim is decorated with shaped panels enclosing flower sprays alternating with archaistic dragons, all reserved against an aubergine diaper ground.8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) diam. Provenance Mallett, London, January 1926, as recorded in the RHRP ledgerThe Reginald and Lena Palmer Collection, no. 2 Literature The Arts Council of Great Britain and The Oriental Ceramic Society, Loan Exhibition of The Arts of The Ching Dynasty, London, 1964, as recorded in the RHRP ledger Exhibited London, The Arts Council of Great Britain and The Oriental Ceramic Society, Loan Exhibition of The Arts of The Ching Dynasty, 26 May – 2 July 1964, as recorded in the RHRP ledger Conditions of sale