China, Transitional period (16th – 17th century). The dish with a flattened barbed rim is decorated in underglaze blue on the show side with a scholar and two pupils in a garden landscape, surrounded by a border of radiating wide and narrow panels enclosing auspicious symbols beneath of mythical beasts masks alternating with tied ribbons. The backside with beribboned objects.
Condition: Very good condition with few manufacturing flaws. Provenance: German private collection.