A Chinese blue and white dish painted with a fenghuang. Kangxi period.
Decorated in underglaze blue with a central medallion enclosing a fenghuang flying over rocks and flowers, surrounded by a band of prunus branche, the rim painted with four flowers and butterflies cartouches on a cell-diaper ground.
- Country:
- China
- Period :
- Kangxi (1662-1722), circa 1700
- Material:
- Porcelain
- Dimension:
- 24 cm
- Reference :
- B212
- Status:
- sold
Related works
A similar plate, but painted in green enamels, is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue L’odyssée de la porcelaine chinoise (Musée national de la Céramique, 2003, p. 186).
Notice
This famous design was imitated by the Manufactory of faïence of Guillibaud in Rouen (France).
