A BLUE AND WHITE 'SENSE OF SMELL' DISH

KANGXI PERIOD

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A BLUE AND WHITE 'SENSE OF SMELL' DISH
Kangxi period
Painted with European court ladies standing on a terrace strewn with flowers, each holding a floral sprig to smell while a servant to one side bears a basket of more flowers, the border petal-molded panels of floral sprigs contained within four panels of scholars in landscape and four of blossoming boughs, all on a wan-fret ground, the back with further flower-filled petal panels and a border of floral sprigs alternating with ribbon-tied emblems, a six-character underglaze blue Chenghua mark within a double circle on the base, an old metal boss in the center
10 3/8in. (26.4cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

After another Bonnart engraving, from a 'Five Senses' series. A similar dish in the Ionides Collection and then the Mottahedeh Collection is illustrated by Howard & Ayers, op. cit., p. 78, where the authors note the six-character mark is "an unusual feature on export wares of this reign"

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