Lot Essay
A larger late Ming Dynasty plaque of this type, depicting figures in a riverscape, is illustrated by Sir H. Garner, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels, pl.56; and an unusual roll-legged scroll stand of similar date, ibid., pl.57. A very similar gilt-bronze-mounted hexagonal stand, dated to the first half of the 17th Century, is in the Uldry Collection, illustrated in the Catalogue, no.140.