A fine Chinese famille-verte ‘lady and child’ dish, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period
清康熙 五彩仕女嬰戲圖盤 《大明宣德年製》款

The finely potted dish of shallow form, rising from a short foot to curved sides with a slightly everted rim, decorated to the interior with a large figurative scene in an outdoor courtyard garden setting depicting a lady sitting in a kang table with her arm resting on a bundle of scrolls next to a censer and jar, besides her a small boy stands leaning on her legs, the base inscribed with a six-character mark of Xuande

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Dimensions: 21.5cm diameter

Hancock, London [label];

From the esteemed Collection of Mr. Basil Ionides and the Hon. Mrs. Nellie Ionides;

Thence by descent to Toby Jessel (1934 – 2018), a British Conservative Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Twickenham from 1970 to 1997 and married to

the renowned actress Eira Heath (b. 17, 1936), best known for A Man for All Seasons (1966), Gaslight Theatre (1965) and Barnaby Rudge (1960).

來源：

倫敦漢考克 [標籤]；

巴茲爾·艾奧尼德斯先生與尊貴的內莉·艾奧尼德斯閣下伉儷珍藏；

其後由繼承傳至托比·傑瑟爾（1934 – 2018），英國保守黨政治家，曾任特威克納姆選區的國會議員（1970年–1997年），並與著名女演員艾拉·希思（生於1936年1月17日）結婚。艾拉·希思以電影《四季的男人》（1966年）、《煤氣燈劇院》（1965年）及《巴納比·拉奇》（1960年）而聞名。