A large famille verte dish, Kangxi period (1662-1722). © Christie's 2003

With flared, rounded sides rising to an everted rim, painted with a flower-filled basket encircled by two rows of flower-decorated petal-shaped panels below eight auspicious emblems reserved on a band of diaper patterns at the rim, a narrow band of diaper and foliate cartouches below the rim on the reverse, the base painted in underglaze blue with an artemesia leaf within a double circle - 20in. (50.8cm.) diam. Lot 295. Estimate $15,000 - $18,000. Price Realized $17,925 

Notes: A Kangxi dish of very similar design and approximately the same size (52cm. diam.) was included in the exhibition, Chinesische Kunst, Preukischen Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1929, p. 431, no. 1195. 

Christie's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 18 September 2003, New York, Rockefeller Plaza