A famille verte 'Outlaws of the Marsh' dish


Kangxi The plate brightly enamelled with a narrative scene, with a channelled foot and an underglaze-blue lozenge mark to the base.27.3cm (10 3/4in) diam.
|The present lot probably shows a scene from the 水滸傳 shuihu zhuan or The Water Margin (also known as Outlaws of the Marsh), a 14th century vernacular novel by Shi Nai'an. We see Li Kui, the ferocious warrior nicknamed Black Whirlwind, approaching a broken flag pole, with an associate holding him back.