A Chinese famille rose 'silver-bordered' 'ladies' dish

The dish is finely and delicately enamelled with a lady seated playing a qin accompanied by her attendant holding a fly whisk, all in a fenced garden with pierced rocks and trees beside two cranes and an open window. The scene is encircled by a floral band in blue enamel, and the flat rim is decorated with shaped cartouches decorated in gilt enclosing flowers, all on a silvered ground.

Catalogue notes: Compare a set of four dishes of the same design sold at Christie's Amsterdam, 19 May 2004, lot 340. Compare also silver-bordered 'ladies' dishes with a single lady playing the qin and a shaped border sold at Christie's Amsterdam, 23-24 May 2006, lot 409, and at Christie's South Kensington, 2 July 2013, lots 338 and 341.

Provenance: Private Dutch collection.