Ref: W294
Archive item - not for sale
Chinese famille verte dish, Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated to the centre with three noble ladies playing a ball game in a lush garden among potted peony, boughs of flowering prunus and palm leaves, while another lady looks on from the balcony of a pavilion with her lady servant offering refreshment from within and two young children play among ceramic vessels in the foreground, the rim with eight peach and cloud-shaped cartouches containing precious objects, flowers and beasts, against alternating floral cell pattern ground, the reverse with three floral sprays and central Artemisia leaf within concentric circles.
Dimensions:
Diameter: 37.3cm. (14 5/8in.)
Condition:
some shallow fritting to the rim, two small flakes and a very small chip to the white of the rim
