Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art

The deep dish painted to the centre with a boy seated on a flowering lotus
(‘lianshengguizi tu’), holding a leaf parasol, a flower and wave band to the rim. The
base painted with a six character mark translating to ‘elegantly made of excellent
jade and good friends’.
This footed dish is closely related to dishes executed in a similar reverse technique
with a central scene set amongst scrolling foliage and a similar floral band around
the rim, produced in the Transitional and early Kangxi period. Compare a deep
circular dish, painted with a boy holding a branch of peony flowers, published by S.
Marchant & Son, ‘Exhibition of Transitional Wares for the Japanese and Domestic
Markets’, 1989, no. 51, p. 37.