Ref: W707
£ 900
Price is subject to availability and market conditions.
Chinese blue and white plate, Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated to the central roundel with two European gentlemen greeting each other in a garden with grasses and prunus issuing from rockwork with birds overhead and two tables with a jardiniere of peony and cracked ice vase containing a floral arrangement, each raising his hat to the other while two attendants look on, one holding a pipe and cap, the other a wine bottle; the cavetto with birds in flight amongst blossoming plum, the rim with sixteen alternating cartouches containing pairs of birds and a bird perching upon a branch of flowering peony, all within a narrow leiwen band; the reverse with four floral sprigs and central Kangxi mark within a double circle
