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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.
Origin: China
Period: Yongzheng period (1723-1735)
Sizes: 3.00 cm. H x 22.50 cm. diameter
1.18 in. H x 8.86 in. diameter