Description rectangular with canted corners, the centre painted with a ribbon-tied posy of peonies, the cavetto decorated with a cell-diaper and spear-head border, the border painted with Buddha's finger citron, persimmon, double gourds and sprays of peonies and prunus blossoms enclosed by a double blue-line border, rim chip, 32,7cm wide
Condition Report There are chips to the rim measuring 0,8 by 0,4cm, 1,1 by 0,1cm, 0,4 by 0,2cm and 0,7 by 0,3cm There are further fritting chips and glaze wear to the rim There are two firing flaws to the centre of the plate measuring 0,3 by 0,2cm and 0,1cm diameter Some wear to the cavetto The reverse with a pinhead oxidisation mark One area of the edge of the base with a firing flaw to the glaze measuring 0,5 by 0,1cm
Provenance Purchased from Charlotte Horstmann&Gerald Godfrey Ltd, Ocean Terminal, Hong Kong, 1 April 1996.