Ref: Q345
Archive item - not for sale
A large Chinese famille verte 'rice production' dish, Kangxi (1662-1722), with rounded flared sides, decorated with a scene of men in a courtyard carrying and sifting rice over straw mats, with an attendant tending to a boy seated on a fene, all amidst rice paddies in a tree-strewn mountainous landscape, with a poem in the classical format of 5 words and 8 stanza,(rough translation: The porters are rubbing shoulders/ The mill stone with its teeth turns/ Lying in bed there is the sound of a thunder/ The stormy wind blows the clouds across the sky/ Just like fabric against the mountains and river/ The buildings lean against each other/Before there is only a half measure of pearls/ My eyes are now filled with this) two seals, the circular for cultivation and the other for weaving, encircled by a band with cartouches enclosing stylised dragons reserved on a floral alternating trellis and honeycomb grounds, underglaze blue lingzhi mark,diameter: SOLD
