Painted in the center with figures attacking the house of Jacob van Zuylen van Nyevelt within a diaper border reserved with panels painted with flowers and fruits. The base with an apocryphal Chenghua mark. Diameter 20 cm.One with a crack. Restored chips.
Purchased from Geoffrey Waters.
The Avalon Collection Part II.
This collection, which in the main focuses on the Interregnum and Kangxi periods has been both carefully and sensitively formed over the last twenty-five years. The collector, a member of the English Oriental Ceramic Society, has assembled the collection with an eye for provenance whilst purchasing from old European collections, well-established antique dealers and at auction.
Academically, the pieces have been well researched both in terms of their symbolism and narrative themes. In many instances the imagery on the pieces has been referenced to episodes in the romantic and historic novels of Chinese mythology, which were used extensively in the decoration of seventeenth century Chinese porcelain.