A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'LADIES' DISH. Qing Dynasty, six character Kangxi mark and of the period. Decorated to the centre with a young lady in a garden fanned by her maid, observing two rabbits, a crane in flight above, the rim with eight alternating panles of ladies and blossoms on a fylfot ground, with ruyi heads and blossoms to the reverse, 34.5cm diameter. Provenance: the Sun Alliance Insurance Collection, London 2006. 清康熙 青花繪仕女圖紋折沿花口碟，「大清康熙年製」款 來源： 太陽聯盟保險公司收藏，倫敦2006。 For similar dishes please see Ashmolean Museums: Eastern Ceramics , G.Reitlinger, p.50, cat.101, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum , Amsterdam, C.J.A. Jörg, London 1997, p.94, cat 82.