Four Chinese blue and white foliate-rimmed 'scholar landscape' dishes

The group comprises three dishes decorated with panels of scholars in mountainous landscapes divided by floral band, the underside with flower sprays, the smaller one with a seal mark reading ‘zhi’ to the base, and the largest one with a ding (censer) mark within a double circle. The last is a dish decorated to the centre with three scholars on a riverbank, the rim is decorated with four carp swimming amongst waterweeds, the reverse is decorated with flower heads.

The smallest dish: 3.5 cm. high x 21 cm. diam. The unmarked dish: 4.8 cm. high x 27.5 cm. diam. The ‘ding’-marked dish: 4.3 cm. high x 27.2 cm. diam. The ‘carp’ dish: 5 cm. high x 27.5 cm. diam.