A large 'famille verte' yellow-ground porcelain charger

Description:

China, iron-red Kangxi six-character seal mark, 19th c.
D. 55 cm
Depiction of a famous scene from the novel "Sanguo Yanyi" (The Tale of the Three Kingdoms): Lü Bu fights against the three oathbreakers Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei at the Battle of Hulao Gate.
From an old German private collection, according to the owners in the family before 1957 - Few tiny chips to the rim