Ref: W307
Archive item - not for sale
Large Chinese famille rose dish, Yongzheng (1723-35), decorated to the centre with a scene from the tale of The Peony Pavilion; the beauty Du Liniang and her maid Chunxiang standing with fans and finery within the fenced garden of peony and prunus, birds and butterflies above their heads, the young scholar Liu Mengmei, his tutor Chen Zuiliang and servants peering at them from the pavilion itself, the rim decorated with four cartouches containing fish and crustaceans, against a floral cell pattern with gilded lotus blossom in pink and red.
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