Blue and white porcelain plate with Xi xaingu ji

A circular porcelain plate with upturned rim, supported on a short foot.  The interior is painted in underglaze blue with two figures, a male standing in front of a pavilion in a wooded landscape with a large rock and a female turning her head around to look at him.  The rim is decorated with four sprays of peaches, reserved in cartouches on a ground of lozenge shaped diapers.  The reverse rim is decorated with landscape scenes.  The base in painted with the six-character mark of Chenghua.

Chenghua reign marks (the emperor reigned from 1464 to 1487) appear quite frequently on Kangxi period porcelain.  They are said to be a tribute to the earlier emperor.

清早期/青花西厢记人物故事纹盘

此盘圆形，撇口，细圈足，通体青花采用“泻染”技法进行绘画，层次分明。盘边缘一周绘锦地纹与开光寿桃纹，盘心绘房屋、树石、崔莺莺及张生的形象，人物形象生动，青花发色淡雅。盘底书“大明成化年制”六字款，字体娟秀有力，为康熙年间常见寄托款。