Antique Chinese & Japanese PorcelainEuropean Ceramics & Works of Art
Chinese blue and white charger Kangxi)1662-172) finely painted in a good underglaze blue with two ladies under a plantain tree in a rocky fenced garden with a pavilion; the rim with six ogee cartouches containing fruit and flowers against a trellis background; the reverse of the rim with stylised rockwork The base with a 6-character Kangxi mark within a double circle
Condition:
Good
Notes:
This scene of elegant courtly ladies in a fenced garden is probably inspired by woodblock illustrations from popular Ming dramas and romantic novels, most notably The Romance of the Western Chamber (Xixiang Ji) or The Peony Pavilion
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