4. ASSIETTE EN PORCELAINE BLEU BLANC Début de l'époque Kangxi (1662-1722) A BLUE AND WHITE 'ROMANCE OF THE WESTERN CHAMBER' DISH Early Kangxi period With gently rounded and flared sides, finely painted with a scene from Xixiangji when Zhang Sheng and Yingying have their first encounter in a Buddhist temple, focusing on a central figure of Buddha seated on an elevated platform, surrounded by monks engaged in various activities, with a two-line inscription, the base with an apocryphal Jiajing mark in underglaze blue. 15.8cm (6 1/4in) diam. 清康熙早期 青花西廂記故事圖盤 「大明嘉靖年製」仿款 Provenance: Collection of Joachim Schlotterbeck (1926-2007), Würzburg, acquired from him in 1992 Published and Exhibited: Daniel Suebsman and Daniela Antonin, Kangxi - Porcelain Treasures of the Kangxi Period, Düsseldorf, 2015, p.106, no.57 The Dancing Dragon! Kangxi / China Contemporary, Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, 19 July 2015 - 17 January 2016, no.57 來源： 符茲堡Joachim Schlotterbeck（1926-2007）珍藏 現藏家於1992年得自上述來源 出版及展覽： Daniel Suebsman及Daniela Antonin合著，《Kangxi - Porcelain Treasures of the Kangxi Period》，杜塞道夫，2015年，頁106，編號57 《The Dancing Dragon! Kangxi/China Contemporary》，黑提恩斯博物館，杜塞道夫，2015年7月19日至2016年1月17日，編號57 A similar dish, painted with a scene from the Xixiangji and dated in accordance with 1666, is illustrated in Stephen Little, Chinese Ceramics of the Transitional period: 1620-1683, New York, 1983, fig.27. Another dish dated to the same year from the Percival David Collection, is published and discussed by Richard L. Kilburn, Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners, Hong Kong, 1981, fig.26, where two related dishes are illustrated, ibid., no. 107 with a Jiajing mark, and no.108 with a Kangxi mark.