A Blue and White 'Three Friends' Dish, Qianlong Seal Mark and Period - Photo Sotheby's
the rounded sides rising from a tapering foot to a flared rim, the central interior painted with the Three Friends of Winter, the exterior with a lady and two children amongst terraced pavilion in a garden landscape, inscribed to the base with a six-character Qianlong seal mark; 17.8cm., 7in. Estimation: 6,000 - 8,000 GBP
PROVENANCE: Collection of Soame Jenyns.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 16th November 1983, lot 514.
EXHIBITED: From the Tang to the Qing: Chinese Ceramics from circa 618-1850 A.D. from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Peter
Thompson, Hull University, Hull, 1996, cat. no. 115.
LITTERATURE: Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. XCV.
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