A FAMILLE VERTE OBLONG FOLIATE TRAY with central sunk roundel, enamelled with two cartouches of birds amongst flower-sprays alternating with smaller cartouches of squirrels amongst vine all reserved on a green whorl-pattern ground embellished with lotus, all within small panels of crustacea reserved on an iron-red ground at the barbed rim, the reverse with flower-sprays and a band of cracked- ice-pattern, Kangxi

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A FAMILLE VERTE OBLONG FOLIATE TRAY with central sunk roundel, enamelled with two cartouches of birds amongst flower-sprays alternating with smaller cartouches of squirrels amongst vine all reserved on a green whorl-pattern ground embellished with lotus, all within small panels of crustacea reserved on an iron-red ground at the barbed rim, the reverse with flower-sprays and a band of cracked- ice-pattern, Kangxi
23cm. wide
Provenance
Viscount Rothermere
The Hague Collection

Lot Essay

Cf. J. McClure Mudge, op. cit., p. 58, pl. 71 for an identical tray, which the author refers to as a dish liner

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