A LARGE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE DISH

£2,000 - £3,000

£6,300

A LARGE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE DISH
16TH CENTURY

Brightly painted in different shades of cobalt blue with a three-tiered pagoda and an abundance of different birds, including chickens, pheasants, parrots and swallows and with squirrels amidst bamboo and a large cicada, the border painted with small sampans, huts and pagodas on a rocky river landscape, the reverse with four fruiting peach branches, the underside unglazed, 44cm.

Provenance: from an English private collection, given to the current owner's father in the 1970s.

Cf. J A Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 92 for four related dishes.

十六世紀青花山水紋大盤
來源：英國私人收藏，現時藏家的父親獲贈於1970年代。