A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ‘MASTER OF THE ROCKS’ DISH. Kangxi. Painted to the interior in the 'Master of the Rocks' style with figures in a mountainous river landscape, below a band of pine boughs at the rim, the exterior is decorated with two further landscape scenes, six character Chenghua mark to base, 20cm diameter. 清康熙 青花山石紋折沿碟，「大明成化年製」楷書款 For a closely related dish, dated as between 1662 and 1674, see Seventeenth Century Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, 1990, p 144, cat no 93. The term ‘Master of the Rocks’ was coined by the English collector Gerard Reitlinger. Butler (1990) notes that the style of landscape painting on porcelain developed from the 1640s onwards, and reached its zenith during the Kangxi period with a brush pot dated 1673 with related design in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing.