Ref: W359
Archive item - not for sale
Large Chinese blue and white plate, Kangxi (1662-1722)/early Yongzheng (1723 -35), decorated in fine underglaze cobalt blue with a central roundel containing a scene from ‘The Romance of the Western Chamber’, the cavetto with a band of diaper patter with chrysanthemum heads and four cartouches with pairs of books and musical jade stone; the rim with cell diaper pattern and large cartouches containing further beribboned precious objects connected with scholarship, including scrolls and papers amongst flowering peony and bamboo, the reverse with two stylised branches of bamboo,.,