A famille verte export porcelain deep dish


Kangxi periodThe wide curving well centered with a hexagonal reserve of birds, flowers and garden rocks surrounded by petal-shaped reserves of auspicious objects, mothers and children, all painted in the typical palette with overglaze blue and gilt highlights surrounded by an iron-red enamel ground, a lingzhi mark enclosed within a double ring drawn in underglaze blue on the recessed base and a lustrous glaze applied to all surfaces except the foot pad.14 1/2in (36.8cm) diameter
|Provenancepurchased in 1987 from Chait Galleries, New York, with the original gallery sticker affixed to the recessed base