A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ‘ROMANCE OF THE WESTERN CHAMBER’ DISH

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ‘ROMANCE OF THE WESTERN CHAMBER’ DISH
KANGXI 1662-1722

Painted with Zhang Sheng, Cui Yingying and Hongniang in an interior within an eight-lobed panel, surrounded by ribbon-tied emblems and floral sprays to the cavetto, below a band of geometric designs to the rim, the reverse with the Eight Trigrams, a six-character Chenghua mark to the base, 21.3cm.

Provenance: from an English private collection, West Yorkshire, formed in the 1970s and 1980s.