An Ansbach faience rectangular dish, circa 1725Decorated in blue after a Chinese export charger, depicting a Chinese pagoda behind a walled garden, several specimens of Asian trees and a multi story pagoda in the foreground, all under a pie-crust rim with cartouches of birds on branches and geometric fields set with single peonies, 39.5cm diam.注脚A dish of identical shape and decoration in the famed polychrome 'Ansbach Grüne Famille' colours in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg is illustrated in Adolf Bayer, Die Ansbacher Fayence-Fabriken (1959), plate 115. Another dish of the same size with near-identical decoration in blue and white in the Hetjens-Museum in Duesseldorf is published in Adalbert Klein, Deutsche Fayencen (1975), plate 243, as Strassburg.