A Chinese blue and white miniature dish

Chenghua four-character mark, 18th Century

Of plain circular shape, the well decorated with a scene of lady and boy in a fenced garden, the rim with diaper and flower-panel border, 10cm dia., together with a blue and white teabowl, of funnel shape and similarly decorated, 4.5cm high. (2)

PROVENANCE:

The B & RM Watkins collection, thence by descent to the vendor.

The dish in this lot was exhibited at the Northern Ceramics Society exhibition 'Oriental Expressions', Stoke-on-Trent City Museum, 1989.

Condition Report

Dish: Minuscule chip to underside rim.

Teabowl: Minuscule rim chip.

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