A Chinese famille verte saucer dish
Kangxi (1662-1722)
Painted to the central medallion with a pair of ducks in a garden with pomegranate and peony, surrounded by radiating shaped panels of a qilin, a phoenix, a river-landscape and flower-vases, alternate with panels of flowering gardens, all below panels of stylised flowerheads reserved on a diaper-pattern band at the rim, the base marked with artemisia leaf, hairline rim cracks, rim frits
35 cm. diam.
A Chinese famille verte saucer dish
Kangxi (1662-1722)
Painted to the central medallion with a pair of ducks in a garden with pomegranate and peony, surrounded by radiating shaped panels of a qilin, a phoenix, a river-landscape and flower-vases, alternate with panels of flowering gardens, all below panels of stylised flowerheads reserved on a diaper-pattern band at the rim, the base marked with artemisia leaf, hairline rim cracks, rim frits
35 cm. diam.
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