DIMENSIONS

Diameter: 15 ¾ inches

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PROVENANCE

• Christie's New York, January 24, 2005, lot 43

• Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 1984

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CATALOGUE NOTES

Pair of dishes in powder blue and gilt with famille verte reserves. The dishes, similarly decorated, depict a central domestic scene of a seated gentleman playing the qin while his wife gestures to a servant girl bearing a tray to attend to her master. The reverse of each is decorated with double concentric circles containing a Buddhist symbol.