Ref: U449
Archive item - not for sale
Pair of Chinese blue and white lobed dishes, Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated in the centre with a 'Long Eliza' seated at a table holding a lotus flower, beside a jardinière of flowers on a stand, surrounded by ten alternating panels containing 'Long Eliza' in a fenced garden and sprays of flowers, the reverse with scrolling foliage and an Artemesia leaf in the centre, diameter: 5 7/8in. (15cm). See, Jorg, Christiaan, ‘Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’, pl. 116, p. 115 for a similarly decorated example. SOLD