A CHINESE FAMILLE-VERTE IMARI 'LADY AND FLOWER' DISH

Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period

清康熙 五彩仕女花卉紋盤

Painted to the central reserve with a solitary lady sat on a terrace enjoying the smell of a delicate flower, her left leg resting against a table adorned with scholarly accoutrements, the moulded foliate cavetto with scholar's objects, butterflies flying over leafy sprays, lotus flowers reserved against an iron-red ground, and gilt-painted landscapes on a powder-blue ground

26cm diameter

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NOTE:

See a pair of saucer dishes with similar decorations sold at Christie's South Kensington, 11 May 2011, lot 464 (price realised £3,000). A comparable dish with a different depiction of a lady was sold at Rob Michiels Auctions, 11 December 2019, lot 196.

Another dish with a similar pattern is illustrated by Christiaan J.A. Jörg in 'Famille Verte - Chinese Porcelain in Green Enamels’, Groninger Museum, 2011, p. 58, pl. 57.