A Chinese blue and white porcelain figural plaque 青花人物故事瓷板 Kangxi period ??

Depicting a group of officials and generals gathering, the officials standing behind a table filled with scholarly objects, the generals standing in front, all eyes on a young general lifting a bronze vessel "Ding" with his right hand in the center.

L: 12 1/2 in., W: 10 1/4 in. H: 3/8 in.

PROVENANCE:

Acquired by the parents of the present owner in London in the 1970s

Thence by descent

NOTE:

For a charger portraying a version of this scene, formerly in the Franzero collection, dated to the Kangxi period and described as an illustration of three clans vying for power, the representative of the strongest raising a large bronze ding above his head, symbol of authority, see Dominic Jellineck and Roy Davids, "Provenance: Collectors, Dealers & Scholars in the Field of Chinese Ceramics in Britain and America", Oxon, 2011, p. 187

來源：

現藏家父母1970年代收藏於倫敦

家族內傳承

註：

對比一件同畫片的大盤，曾屬Franzero私藏，斷代康熙，並描述為三王爭勝，最強者力能扛鼎，即為強權象征，見Dominic Jellineck and Roy Davids著作, "Provenance: Collectors, Dealers & Scholars in the Field of Chinese Ceramics in Britain and America", Oxon, 2011年, 頁. 187