description

Famille Verte palette and unusual in size, this charger depicts a scene of a high ranking dignitary amidst a court attendance
Diameter 46,5 cm
China, Kangxi period (1662 – 1722), six character Chenghua Mark

Detail Description

Of particular interest is the artist’s attempt of perspective in the scene, a discipline that was not mastered by the Chinese until the Qianlong period (1736 1795) under influence of the Jesuit painter Giuseppe Castiglone (1688 – 1766).