A large Chinese porcelain `Famille-Verte’ Charger Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Photo Gibson Antiques

Painted to the centre with birds amongst prunus above water with a leaping carp reserved against a lotus ground set with four fan and quatrelobed vignettes enclosing classical landscapes, insects and flowers, the underside with a two-charater seal mark in underglaze-blue. Diameter: 35.5cm. Price 6 000 €

Incised Japanese Palace inventory no: N: 107/I.
Applied paper label Bluett & Sons, London.

Provenance: Collection of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland, Elector of Saxony.

A large Chinese porcelain `Famille-Verte’ Charger Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Photo Gibson Antiques

Painted to the centre with a lion-dog within a landscape reserved against a lotus ground set with four fan and quatrelobed vignettes enclosing insects flowers and butterflies, the underside with a two-character seal mark in underglaze-blue. Diameter: 34cm. Price 6 000 €

Incised Japanese Palace inventory no: N:107/I.
Applied paper label Bluett & Sons, London.

Provenance: Collection of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland, Elector of Saxony.

Gibson Antiques will be exhibiting at the Maastricht Fine Art Open House 2012, which runs alongside TEFAF from the 15th to the 25th March 2012 between 11am and 6pm daily

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