Ref: W989
£ 1,550
Price is subject to availability and market conditions.
Chinese famille verte dish Kangxi(1668:1722) the centre painted with two mandarin ducks, a butterfly and lotus leaves and flowers in a large pond, the rim with the eight Taoist immortals holding their attributes
Notes:
A similar dish
Literature:
• Yang-ts’ai: The Foreign Colors, Rose Porcelains of the Ch’ing Dynasty, by H.A. Crosby Forbes, 1982 Milton, MA, p. 16, cat. 2 for a similar plate;
• La Ceramique Chinoise sous les Ts’ing, by J.P. van Goidsenhoven, Brussels 1936, plate 82, cat. 179 for a similar plate;
• The Choice of the Private Trader, by D.S. Howard, Minneapolis 1994, p. 65, cat. 42 for a similar plate;
• Exposição de porcelana da Companhia das Índias, Museu da Quinta das Cruzes, Funchal, Madeira, Setembro/Outubro 1960, cat. 12 for a similar plate;