A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'PAVILION' DISH Kangxi Painted with a thin border of aster sprays enclosing a two-storey pagoda emerging on stilts from a pond, with birds resting on towers either side, framed by further aster sprays, all beneath a decorative hanging and a flaming pearl. 39.5cm (15 1/2in) diam. Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 清康熙 青花亭臺圖盤 The highly eccentric design of the present dish is known in Holland as 'Cuckoo in the House'. Numerous variations in designs are known, for example, see a dish, Kangxi, circa 1700, illustrated in D.S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994, p.44, no.10, where it is noted that the aster sprays closely mirror those on cups and saucers from the Vung Tau cargo of circa 1695. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing