Lot 131

A large Chinese porcelain dish decorated in underglaze blue. The central design depicting flowering plants issuing from open rockwork and insects flying over the flowers. The rim with 12 cartouches with similar decoration, the reverse with three sprays of flowers along the rim and a square four character mark within a double blue circle to the underside, China, Kangxi period (1662-1722) -D. 36 cm, glaze fritting to the rim-