Lot 875. A large gilt-decorated famille verte dish, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Estimate USD 30,000 - USD 50,000. Photo: Christie's Image Ltd 2016. 

The center of the dish is decorated with a floriform roundel containing a basket of flowers, beneath two registers of radiating lappets enclosing composite flower blossoms, all reserved on a stippled ground decorated with further flower blossoms below a band of shaped panels enclosing auspicious emblems between different diapers on the mouth rim. The base is inscribed with an artemesia leaf in underglaze blue. 20 1/8 in. (50.8 cm.) diam.

Provenance: John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874-1960) Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1960.

Christie's. Collected in America: Chinese Ceramics from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 15 September 2016, New York, Rockefeller Plaza