A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'ROMANCE OF THE WESTERN CHAMBER' DISH

SIX CHARACTER KANGXI MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1662-1722

Painted to the centre with Scene 14 (Book 4) of the Romance of the Western Chamber, depicting the future scholar Zhang kneeling down asking the seated maid Hongniang to deliver his love letter to her mistress, with four cartouches enclosing peaches against a diaper ground encircling the rim, the underside decorated with two rocky landscapes, 21cm.

Provenance: formerly an English private collection.

Cf. C J A Jörg, Famille Verte: Chinese Porcelain in Green Enamels, p.100 for a description of this scene.