Famille rose export porcelain wavy-rimmed dish
Chinese, Kangxi (1662-1722)
decorated with a central scene of two European gentlemen in conversation while sitting and standing in the grounds of a terraced garden displaying rocks, flowering shrubs and pine tree, the scene within a gilt and red petalled border, the cavetto with symbolic flowers and foliage in white enamel relief repeated around the rim that has stylised lotus flowers and other flower heads, highlighted in coloured enamels
34cm diameter