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A FINE AND LARGE FAMILLE VERTE AND GILT-DECORATED PORCELAIN DISH, CHINA, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
With a scene extending over the interior and depicting three ladies playing a ball game in a garden with banana palms and potted plants within a balustrade overlooking a fish pond, a maid offering refreshments to another lady seated watching from the nearby pavilion, and two small boys chasing each other in the foreground, the rim encircled by an elaborate border of floral stems on different colorful diaper grounds interspersed with small cartouches of varying shapes enclosing birds, tree-shrews and precious objects. The exterior with three flowered sprigs and in the centre of the base between two blue underglaze rings the auspicious symbol of one of the eight precious things babao of Artemisia or Mugwort leaves and are symbolic of protective and curative herbs and are thus associated with longevity. In very good conditions, very small firing imperfection and minor fritting.
37 cm diam., 5,9 cm high
37 cm diam., 5,9 cm high
ESTIMATE € 3.000 - 5.000
Provenance: from the private collection of a Lady in south of Italy, and thence descendants, purchased at Lukacs Donath Antichità Roma (label)
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