Plate with a boy on a large tortoise swimming in wavey waters, Porcelain plate with short wall and flat border, painted in underglaze blue. On the shelf a representation of a boy on a large turtle swimming in undulating water near rocks, under clouds and moon or sun, the border with four different patterns interspersed with cartouches in which scholars with servants: a lying scholar and servant working on a stove, a scholar playing on a qin and servant working on an incense burner, a sitting scholar with a servant, a scholar writing on a roll holding the clerk, the back with three valuables


Plate with a boy on a large tortoise swimming in wavey waters, Porcelain plate with short wall and flat border, painted in underglaze blue. On the shelf a representation of a boy on a large turtle swimming in undulating water near rocks, under clouds and moon or sun, the border with four different patterns interspersed with cartouches in which scholars with servants: a lying scholar and servant working on a stove, a scholar playing on a qin and servant working on an incense burner, a sitting scholar with a servant, a scholar writing on a roll holding the clerk, the back with three valuables (pearl, musical stone, coin) and lucky symbol (shell). Marked on the bottom with a six-character mark of emperor Kangxi in a double circle. A chip in the edge. Blue White., anonymous, China, c. 1700, Qing-dynasty (1644-1912) / Kangxi-period (1662-1722), porcelain (material), glaze, cobalt (mineral), vitrification, h cm d cm d 14 cm


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