A Chinese famille verte dish

A Chinese famille verte dish, with a channel footrim, decorated with a central panel depicting three women making music in a fenced garden, around the cavetto are eight shaped panels illustrating episodes from the Xiyou Ji (The Journey to the West), the reverse with three flower sprays and with an artemesia leaf mark, Kangxi 1662-1722, broken and repaired, 35cm. From the collection of Professor D R Laurence MD. Provenance: purchased from S. Marchant & Son, London. Cf. C J A Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, no. 165 for an almost identical dish.