A SET OF THREE BLUE AND WHITE DEEP DISHES, comprising a dish and a pair of larger dishes, each painted with two equestrian warriors before bannerman in landscape, within six shaped panels with equestrian figures and attendants reserved on a key-fret-pattern and V-pattern ground to the foliate rim; and a blue and white deep dish painted with five warriors on horseback, within a band of shaped panels of a bird perched on a blossoming prunus tree reserved on wave and V-pattern ground to the border (two with rim crack, rim chips), all Kangxi | Christie's

Lot 41

A SET OF THREE BLUE AND WHITE DEEP DISHES, comprising a dish and a pair of larger dishes, each painted with two equestrian warriors before bannerman in landscape, within six shaped panels with equestrian figures and attendants reserved on a key-fret-pattern and V-pattern ground to the foliate rim; and a blue and white deep dish painted with five warriors on horseback, within a band of shaped panels of a bird perched on a blossoming prunus tree reserved on wave and V-pattern ground to the border (two with rim crack, rim chips), all Kangxi

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A SET OF THREE BLUE AND WHITE DEEP DISHES, comprising a dish and a pair of larger dishes, each painted with two equestrian warriors before bannerman in landscape, within six shaped panels with equestrian figures and attendants reserved on a key-fret-pattern and V-pattern ground to the foliate rim; and a blue and white deep dish painted with five warriors on horseback, within a band of shaped panels of a bird perched on a blossoming prunus tree reserved on wave and V-pattern ground to the border (two with rim crack, rim chips), all Kangxi
34.5cm. and 37.8cm. diam. (4)

Lot Essay

cf. C.J.A. Jorg, op. cit., p. 156 for a dish with a similar scene and a discussion of the subject, which is known in Dutch as 'Joosje te paard'

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