A LARGE POWDER-BLUE-GROUND AND GILT FAMILLE-VERTE DISH QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD |

the center with a lobed roundel enclosing a scene of scholars in a garden by a lake, a bridge in the foreground and a pagoda and mountains in the distance, surrounded by gilt floral scrolls, the cavetto with eight lozenge-shaped medallions alternating floral stems and landscape scenes, interspersed with gilt quatrefoils enclosing floral sprays, all reserved on a mottled powder-blue ground, the exterior with three flowering branches, the base with a beribboned lozenge within a double circle in underglaze blue

Collection of R. H. R. Palmer (1898-1970). 
Marchant, London, 2009.

S. Marchant & Son, Recent Acquisitions, London, 2009, cat. no. 16.

Overall in good condition with minute flake chips at the footring. Minor losses and light scratches to the enamels.
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