A Chinese blue & white lotus-shaped dish. Kangxi period.

Formed as a lotus flower with nine radiating petals, similarly painted at the centre with insects in flight above a grasshopper perched on rockwork beside chrysanthemum an peony sprays, below nine lappets enclosing mandarin ducks on a lotus pond, a pair of birds beside a prunus branch, a pair of birds perched on a willow tree, and flowering branches and rockwork, below brown-glazed rims, the reverse with single upright flower sprays on each petal.

COUNTRY : China
PERIOD : Kangxi (1662-1722), circa 1700
MATIERIAL : Porcelain
SIZE : 8.66 in. (22 cm)
REFERENCE : B906b
STATUT : sold
Related works :

For an identical dish, see Christie’s NYC, Interiors, 22-23 july 2014, lot 319.

Additonal informations :

Kangxi Porcelain dishes of this shape can be found in famille verte as well as blue & white porcelain.

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