A CHINESE ROSE-IMARI PLATE
18TH CENTURY
Inspired by 'La Dame au Parasol', decorated and gilt with a bearded man holding a parasol for a lady beneath a prunus tree, surrounded by an underglaze-blue trellis band with cartouches of a butterfly, a bat, and an insect
8½ in. (21.7 cm.)
Lot Essay
For a similar example, see D.S. Howard, Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994, p.57, pl. 30.