Chinese Export Porcelain Famille Verte Octagonal Plate, Kangxi. Painted to the center in green, brown iron-red enamels and gold with a pair of swallows or magpies flying near a willow tree and flowering prunus branches, the rim painted with two grasshopper and two butterfly panels reserved on a stippled ground of peony blossoms, the reverse rim painted with three prunus branches in iron-red.H: 9.375 in., W: 9.375 in., D: 1.375 in.Provenance: H. Moog Fine Porcelains, Atlanta, Georgia.Henry B. Moog (1938-2012, Atlanta, Georgia), expert and dealer in Chinese export porcelain; Property from a North Shore, Massachusetts Collection.

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