China, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Painted in underglaze blue on the show side with an encircled landscape of an official by the riverside, surrounded by a border of radiating lappets enclosing repeated floral and landscape designs. The backside with stylized floral sprays. The lobed rim, like the pointed end of a lotus bud.
Condition: Manufacturing flaws, fritting to rims and two hairlines, otherwise good condition. Provenance: Holzapfel collection, Geneva, Switzerland. This lot was acquired by a third-generation member of the Holzapfel family after 1995 and has remained in the family ever since.