A Chinese blue and white charger painted with a central scene of ladies strolling in a garden of plantain and rockwork before a pavilion with a seated boy inside before a man playing a samisen, the well with cartouches of precious objects on a geometric ground, the everted rim with a band of pine, bamboo and blossoming plants -- 15½in. (39.4cm) diam, Kangxi, (slight chips to underside of rim).