A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE DISH painted in a bright violet-blue with two ladies on a rocky terrace standing at either side of a flowering plant on a rockwork table, two attendants holding a large fan and a canopy over their heads, below lappet-shaped panels of ladies at leisure alternating with flower sprays, the lowermost panel with an elephant-headed mythical beast, encircled Kangxi six-character mark and of the period