A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'SENSE OF SMELL' DISH

KANGXI PERIOD

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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'SENSE OF SMELL' DISH
Kangxi period
The center a garden scene with two elaborately dressed and coiffed French court ladies enjoying the scent of blossoms, a gentleman in a long curly wig looking on and a servant holding a basket of further blooms at one side, behind them a pagoda-roofed pavilion, the rim with eight panels of Chinese ladies admiring flowering plants and holding sprigs and fans, reserved on a wan-fret ground, and the back with a six-character Kangxi mark in underglaze blue
13 5/8in. (34.6cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A very similar dish in the Mottahedeh collection is illustrated by Howard & Ayers, op. cit., p. 78, where the authors note that it is probably inspired by a Bonnart print, and that the reign mark is a very unusual feature on export wares in this period

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