Antique Chinese & Japanese PorcelainEuropean Ceramics & Works of Art
Large Chinese blue and white plate, Kangxi (1662-1722), with gently barbed rim, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue to the centre with a lotus flower roundel surrounded by a collar of ruyi-heads and twelve radiating ogee-topped petal cartouches containing various floral sprigs against a lattice diaper ground, the wide rim with a further twelve floral cartouches against a diaper ground; the reverse rim painted with fruiting and floral boughs, the base with a beribboned solid lozenge; one of the eight babao or ‘precious things’, within a double circle.
Dimensions:
Diameter: 28.5cm. (11 1/4in.)
Notes:
Plates of the same design can be found in the collections of the British Museum (Franks.194) and the National Trust at Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire (NT 997422)
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