Porcelain Hunting Dish w/ Apocryphal Chenghua Mark

Possibly Kangxi Reign (1661-1722)

The interior of the shallow, widely-flaring dish is painted in rich blue tones with a medallion enclosing a scene of a man on horseback hunting with bow and arrow, beside him a woman holding a falcon, enclosed within a border of interlaced vines and flowerheads and Bajixiang, on the lobed rim. The exterior painted with sixteen asters, the base with a apocryphal Chenghua mark in underglaze blue.

D. 7 3/4 in.

Exhibited: Boras Konstmuseum, "Mittens Rike, 1985" on sticker.

Condition: Base has a number of pin holes in the glaze, there are several rough spots to the rim and some minor kiln frit to the base
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