A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS' DISH.

Qing Dynasty, six character Kangxi mark and of the period.

Painted with a figure of a warrior and a scholar holding a large box beneath an overhanging cliff, the rim moulded with lobes and painted with lotus blossoms among scrolling foliate arabesques, 20cm diameter.

Provenance: from the Christopher Clay Collection [label, no 109].

清康熙 青花繪七擒孟獲圖紋花口碟，青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款

來源：克里斯托弗·克萊（Christopher Clay）收藏 （第109號，標籤）。

This dish depicts an interaction between Zuge Liang and Meng Huo from the Chinese canonical classic novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In the novel Meng Huo being captured and released seven times by Zhuge, demonstrating the resourcefulness of Zhuge.

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