Antique Chinese Porcelain Charger 17th Century Kangxi Period Dish Imari Pallette

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Antique Chinese porcelain Charger.
Kangxi period Imari plate featuring cranes and flowering plants and other motifs like Bamboo and chrysanthemums … Read more Antique Chinese porcelain Charger.
Kangxi period Imari plate featuring cranes and flowering plants and other motifs like Bamboo and chrysanthemums symbolizing longvity.
In China cranes have a spiritual meaning where they are a form of divine bird which travels between heaven and man's world.
The crane mythology is related with the divine bird worship in animal totemism
Kangxi reign 1662-1722.
A fine early Chinese Charger handpainted in deep underglaze cobalt and enriched with iron-red and gold gilding, the so called Imari pallette
Origin China, Jingdezhen.
Condition: 2 hairlines (restored) and on the back a rim chip which isn't visible on front.

Diameter 15.1in - 38.5cm
Height 1.9 - 4.8cm See less