A Chinese blue and white ‘court scene’ dish, Kangxi period, ...

Hammer

£750

A Chinese blue and white ‘court scene’ dish, Kangxi period, painted with a court official and attendant in a garden setting, the brocade pattern border interspersed by six flower reserves, the underside painted with river landscape scenes surrounding an apocryphal six character Chenghua mark within a double circle, 32cm diameter, two rim cracks and small splinter chips

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Provenance - UK private collection, 1920s or earlier, thence by family descent.
This collection of late Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain and bronze vessels has been owned by a single Cotswold family for a number of generations dating back to the 1920s or earlier.
The collection was formerly on display at the family home in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, UK before the house was sold in the 1980s. Some interior photos taken c.1982 show a number of the pieces on display in the family house and an inventory undertaken in 1948 by the local Campden auctioneer and valuer Alfred Bower lists many of the items. Extracts of the 1948 inventory are included where they correspond to the relevant lots in the sale.

Fritting and numerous small glaze losses to the rim, a long shallow splinter chip to the rim at the 4 o?clock position with two hairline cracks each side of this, four small splinter chips on the underside of the edge.