A Chinese polychrome-decorated dish Late Qing dynasty

the flaring sides rising from a tapered foot, the interior painted with a scholar seated on a rocky plinth, accompanied by two ladies in a garden landscape, the rim encircled by a trellis border in iron-red

The dish in general good condition with the exception of general enamel wear and surface scratches. The rim with minor frits and chips, the foot with sand adhesion.
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