Sold Ceramics - Sold Blue and White Kangxi Period 1660-1722 - Dishes - Page 1
Object 201091
Dish
China
c.1700
Height 30 mm (1.18 inch), diameter 200 mm (7.87 inch), diameter of footring 115 mm (4.53 inch)
Dish on footring with a flat rim. Decorated in underglaze blue with two "Long Eliza" figures standing in a garden near a house. On the flattened rim five panels containing flowering prunus branches reserved on a trellis diaper ground. On the reverse, two identical, elongated rocky shores with a pavilion. Marked on the base with the six character mark "Da Ming Cheng hua nian zhi", prepared during the Chenghua reign of the great Ming Dynasty (AD 1465-1487), in a double circle, underglaze blue.
Many plates, dishes and bowls from the middle Kangxi period are carefully painted with a great feeling for detail; the scenes tell a story and have been derived from woodcut illustrations of Chinese novels and plays. Two novels The Story of the Western Chamber and The Dream in the Red Chamber are particularly noted for providing subjects. The motif on the back of the plate, a rocky shore, is found not only on good quality blue and white plates and dishes but also on famille verte; it appears to have been used in particular at the beginning of the 18th century. (Jörg 1995, pp.33-34)
Condition: Perfect.
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Price: Sold.
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