A Large Chinese Blue and White Plate

Well decorated with a scene of two boys on a terrace being watched by adults

Within a border of ladies at ease among rocks and trees

The base with a large floral mark

Kangxi L17thC

Diameter: 10″ (25.5 cm)

Condition: frits, small chips to rim, crazing to glaze on base

There are Armorial plates with the same floral decoration to the base and a similar border

With the arms of Johannes Camphuijs of Haarlem to the centre, C1690

Which are some of the earliest private orders of porcelain with Dutch coats of arms

(Jochem Kroes, Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch Market: Chinese Porcelain with Coats of Arms of Dutch Families, Zwolle, 2007, cat. no. 1a, b.)