Diameter: 7 3/4 inches, 20 cm
Height: 1 1/2 inches, 3 cm

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Blue and white porcelain plate with Xi xaingu ji

China, Kangxi period, 1662 – 1722

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。