Details A FAMILLE ROSE RUBY-BACK HE XIANGU’ DISHYONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)The interior is decorated with the one of the Eight Immortals, He Xiangu, riding on a stag and accompanied by a female attendant carrying a flower basket.8 1/16 in. (20.5 cm.) diam. Provenance Bertram Currie (1899-1959) Collection, Farnborough, EnglandSpink & Son, London, July 1936, as recorded in the RHRP ledgerThe Reginald and Lena Palmer Collection, no. 417 Literature The Royal Academy of Arts, The International Exhibition of Chinese Art, London, 1935, p. 188 & 204, cat. no. 2208 (Fig. 1) The Oriental Ceramic Society, Exhibition of Enamelled Polychrome Porcelain of the Manchu Dynasty 1644-1912, London, 1951, p. 15, cat. no. 180 (Fig. 2)S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain: The Ching Dynasty (1644-1912), London, 1965, pl. XLVII, no. 2 (Fig. 3)Bonham’s, Reginald and Lena Palmer, Their Collection and The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1921-1970, London, 2021, pp. 62-63, no. 18 Exhibited London, The Royal Academy of Arts, The International Exhibition of Chinese Art, 28 November 1935- 7 March 1936, no. 2134 London, The Oriental Ceramic Society, Exhibition of Enamelled Polychrome Porcelain of the Manchu Dynasty 1644-1912, 23 May – 21 July 1951, no. 180Bonham’s London, Reginald and Lena Palmer, Their Collection and The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1921-1970: A Loan Exhibition, 25 October – 2 November 2021 Conditions of sale