Pair Chinese Porcelain Dishes. Decorated With "famille Verte" Enamels. Kangxi Period, Late 17th

These hard porcelain dishes from China were made in Jingdezhen around 1700 during the reign of Emperor Kangxi. The style of the characters (notably that of the elegant Lady) are typical of this period as well as the blue overglaze enamel and the deep iron red. These could be dishes from the famille verte but the presence of a pinkish fuchsia enamel is disturbing, in fact usually under the reign of Kanghi we find on porcelains a mauve manganese enamel and not this beautiful pink enamel. It is very likely that this is one of the very first attempts to obtain pink enamel. It was not until the end of the reign that Chinese ceramists finally mastered pink enamel. The edge is covered with a brown iron enamel. It would be tempting to classify this dish in the "famille rose"
These are rare porcelains. One dish has a small chip, the other is cracked. See photos. Diameter approximately 23cm. On the back is stuck an old collector's label.