A CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE DISH
17TH CENTURY
Brightly enamelled to the interior with a crouching Buddhist lion next to rockwork and below stylised clouds, the well with four clambering long-bodied dragons reserved on an iron-red overlapping-petals ground, the exterior with meandering scrolls bearing large blooms below a band of classic scroll at the rim; together with a blue and white and iron-red decorated dish, the interior delicately painted with birds perched on large peony branches, 18th Century
13 in. (33 cm.) and 12½in. (31.4 cm.) diam. (2)
A CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE DISH
17TH CENTURY
Brightly enamelled to the interior with a crouching Buddhist lion next to rockwork and below stylised clouds, the well with four clambering long-bodied dragons reserved on an iron-red overlapping-petals ground, the exterior with meandering scrolls bearing large blooms below a band of classic scroll at the rim; together with a blue and white and iron-red decorated dish, the interior delicately painted with birds perched on large peony branches, 18th Century
13 in. (33 cm.) and 12½in. (31.4 cm.) diam. (2)
