A Large Blue and White Dish

A large deep dish painted with a walking man carrying a parasol on a rocky promontory and pointing to a fisherman in a boat. All in a sunlit mountainous river scene with a pagoda and trees within a double-ring medallion. The border with a continuous scene of four pairs of seated men wearing long robes separated by pine, willow, prunus and bamboo, the underside with five freely painted panels each enclosing a pearl.

Published in S. Marchant & Son, Ming Blue and Porcelain - The Drs. A.M. Sengers Collection. 84-85, No. 60. A copy of this catalogue is included with the dish.

Condition: two very small rim chips.

See for a similar example: Krahl & Ayers op. cit., no. 1592 for a dish with similar border but with a single figure, where it is dated second quarter of the 17th century.

Provenance: With Marchant & Son, July 1996 Drs. A.M. Sengers Collection, The Netherlands