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二 24. Imperial blue and white saucer dish, pan, painted with Ying Ying, dancing in front of taihu rockwork, her arms raised
十 beneath her robes and wearing a long scarf, the flat-top rock with a tripod censer, pear-shaped bottle and books, with a
四 four-character mark Ying Ying Chun Tu, all within a single underglaze-blue line, the underside plain.

19.5cm diameter.
御 The base with six-character mark of Kangxi within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1662-1722.
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青 • Formerly in an Italian private collection.
花 • Included by Marchant in their catalogue of Recent Acquisitions, 2011, no. 14, pp. 30/1.
仕 • A similar dish in The Gugong, Beijing, of the Kangxi period bearing a Ming Jiajing mark, is illustrated by Chen
女 Run Min in Qing Dynasty Shunzhi and Kangxi Period, Underglaze Blue Porcelain in The Gugong Museum Collection,
圖 Beijing, no. 60, p. 122, and a similar pair, formerly in the collection of Edward T. Chow, are included by Regina
盤 Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume Two, nos. 741 and 742, pp. 114/5; a further dish

painted with the lady Du Mei Liang is illustrated on the front cover and discussed by Ni Yibin in Kan Tu Shuo Ci,
清 Explaining the Stories on Chinese Porcelain, pp. 2/8.
康 • A large saucer dish similarly painted with a standing figure of Chang Er, bearing a Kangxi six-character reign mark,
熙 was included by Marchant in their exhibition of Seventeenth-Century Blue and White and Copper-red and their

Predecessors, 1997, no. 48, pp. 50/1.
大 • The bold writing and wet brush indicate an early date in the Kangxi period, circa 1670.
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