Large dish, blue and white porcelain with two pheasants among flowers, on the rim four peacocks. Symbol mark.
China, Kangxi, early 18th century.
Diam. 15 ½ in. (39.5 cm).
Rim chip and a hairline crack, the glaze at the rim is intensively fritted.
Cf. a similar dish in the Capital Museum, Beijing
(www.chinapotteryonline.com/?p=438).
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