A SET OF THREE SMALL HEXAGONAL FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT SERVING...

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A SET OF THREE SMALL HEXAGONAL FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT SERVING DISHES AND A DRUM SHAPED WATER POT (4) 清康熙 素三彩梅汶六边碟三件及鼓形水盂 China, Kangxi period (1654-1722) The dishes decorated with famille verte enamels, with a flowering prunus branch in aubergine-brown, yellow, green and white enamels, the rim with half-prunus flower and a repeating diagonal line pattern. The dishes D. 12cm The water pot H. 5cm x 6.5cm Provenance: The Hancock Collection, procured by Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander A. J. Patterson RN. Dr Patterson studied at Trinity College Dublin and The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and joined the British Navy in 1913 as a Surgeon Lieutenant,after seeing practice at the Adelaide and Rotunda Hospitals in Dublin (1908-12). Upon entering the navy, he was deployed to Britain’s Far Eastern fleet, where he served on gunboats patrolling the Yangtse River until August 1914, after which he joined the battleship HMS Triumph in Hong Kong. The ship was second to the Japanese fleet and assisted them in the blockade, bombardment and capture of the German colony of Qingdao in September and October 1914. Thereafter, HMS Triumph returned to Hong Kong for a refit and was sent to the Dardenelles in Turkey in 1915 where on 25th May, she was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. Dr Patterson was one of the survivors. Illustrated here are black and white photographic negatives taken by Dr Patterson during this period, depicting gunboats patrolling the River Yangtse, harbour scenes, and Chinese junks under sale.