A Chinese Export Porcelain Hexagonal Shaped Dish

Qianlong period (1736-95), hexagonal shaped porcelain dish, finely hand painted in polychrome enamels and gilt with a scene of a family gathered in their elegant villa, a gilt ground border surrounds the scene with shaped reserves with flora sprays in pink lavender.

11 1/2 x 10 in.

Private Collection, North Carolina

Good estate condition; some fritting to rim and some loss of gilt; some rubbing with light losses to enamels on interior of plate.