A Chinese famille rose dish with quails, butterflies and flowers, Yongzheng/Qianlong

Dia.: 31,6 cm

Literature: G. Reitlinger, Ashmolean Museum: Eastern Ceramics, Oxford, 1981, p. 58, cat. 135 for a similar plate.             

Condition: (UV-checked)

- With a faint hairline showing up under UV-light, invisible to the naked eye, along the side of the center of the dish, from ca. 3 to ca. 5.30 o'clock, startin and ending at ca. 4 cm from the rim.
- A number of small superficial touch-ups to the overglaze enamels.
- A few very small fillled superficial rim chips on the underside of the rim.
- Minor superficial wear throughout, as well as superficial glaze crackling.
- The restoration very well executed and quasi invisible to the naked eye.