A FAMILLE-VERTE 'ELEGANT BEAUTY' DISH KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD |

the shallow rounded sides rising to a gently flaring rim, enameled in delicate tones of green, yellow and augergine, depicting an elegant woman attired in flowing Han-style robes standing before a slender corner-leg table displaying several accoutrements of an accomplished lady, such as a book, gilt censer, and bottle vase containing two peacock feathers, the base with a six-character reign mark in underglaze blue, coll. no. 247 

Collection of H. M. Knight (d. 1971).
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28th November 1979, lot 149.
Christie's Hong Kong, 20th March 1990, lot 685
Ed Chan, Galerius Collection, Marion, Massachusetts, 1999.

Oosterse Shatten, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1954, cat. no. 352.
The Colors of Earth, Kangxi Era Porcelain from the Stamen Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2002, no. 16.

The dish is in good condition with expected wear, minor glaze and potting flaws and minute minor scattered iron spots and glaze bubbles.
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