Lot 349
349
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A FAMILLE VERTE DISH

Details
A FAMILLE VERTE DISH
THREE-CHARACTER MARK, WEN XIN ZHAI, IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE, KANGXI

The body flaring widely from the tapered ring foot and then angled below the shallow sides to rise to a lipped rim, well painted on the interior with three figures set against a plain ground illustrating a scene from the novel Shuihu zhuan ('The Water Margin'), with gilt highlights, small shallow rim chip--8 1/8in. (20.5cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

The mark, Wen Xin Zhai, may be translated 'Study where one examines one's thoughts'

For a discussion of the set of small dishes from which this dish comes see Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, 1986, p. 102 and compare the dish with the same mark illustrated p. 103, pl. 81