A Blue and White 'Zhangzhou' Dish. Ming Dynasty, Late 16th Century - Photo Sotheby's

the rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to an everted barbed rim, painted to the interior with deer in a landscape with bamboo and pine, the rim painted with a border of pagodas in a river landscape; 41.5cm., 16 3/8 in. Estimation: 6,000 - 8,000 GBP

PROVENANCE: Collection of Max Robertson.

EXHIBITED: The Ceramic Art of China, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1971, cat. no. 179.
South-East Asian and Chinese Trade Pottery, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1979, cat. no. 124.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. 70.

LITTERATURE: Margaret Medley, Apollo, June 1971, p. 454, fig. 12.
Margaret Medley, The Chinese Potter, London, 1976, pl.181.

Sotheby's. Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of Peter and Nancy Thompson. London | 07 nov. 2012 www.sothebys.com