£3,250
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art | 682
Auction: 13 May 2022 at 11:00 BST
清康熙 青花呂布戲貂蟬圖大盤一對
each finely painted on the interior with a famous story in the classical fiction The Three Kingdoms, depicting a young soldier Lu Bu teasing the beautiful lady Diao Chan and caught by Dong Zhuo, the cavetto further adorned with books and scrolls in cartouches against a diamond ground, the exterior freely painted with flowers in tendrils, the mouth rim applied with brown glaze
Provenance: Formerly in a private English collection, acquired from France about 30 years ago; originally mounted with metal frames for hanging on the wall but removed