A Chinese blue and white dish decorated with a peacock. Yongzheng period.

Decorated in underglaze blue, with honey-brown edge, flowers on the rim, cell-diaper band at the well, and a central scene of pheasant perched on rockwork amongst flowers.

COUNTRY : China
PERIOD : yongzheng (1723-1735)
MATERIAL : Porcelain
SIZE : 9.84 in. (25 cm)
REFERENCE : B427
STATUT : sold
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For an amorial set, also in underglazed blue, with a very similar decoration, see Thomas V. Litzenburg, Jr, Chinese Export Porcelain in the Reeves Center Collection at Washington and Lee University (2003, p. 93, no. 78).