A large Chinese blue and white 'narrative' plate

Reference: ART1002131

The dish is decorated to the centre with a circular panel enclosing a narrative scene with an official and his attendant greeting another official in on a terrace. The flattened everted rim is decorated with a wide band of floral cartouches interspersed with various geometric designs. The reverse is decorated with a mountainous river landscape. The base with an apocryphal Chenghua mark.