Kavel 2719

An unusual Chinese porcelain charger decorated in famille rose enamels, centrally depicting a mandarin duck in a lotus pond, the cavetto and rim with three cartouches enclosing different flower sprays and lotus pods against an iron red striped ground, each separated by stylised chrysanthemum roundels on a powder blue ground, bordered below the rim by a scrolling pattern and four cartouches enclosing a flower, the reverse of the rim with a continuous floral spray, China, late Yongzheng period (1723-1735)/early Qianlong period (1736-1795), ca. 1730-1740 -D. 38,5 cm-