Porcelain Charger, the shallow dish painted with the three plant friends of winter, the pine, the bamboo and the plum, encased within a triple ring border, the outer rim decorated with a continuous band of lotus and tendril scroll, continued verso, d 38.5cm Provenance: Purchased between 1938-1970, The Estate of the Late Walter Hochstadter, hence by descent. A large number of the Hochstadter Collection was sold at Christies 18th/19th March 2009. See Christies write up about Walter in Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art including Jades from the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19th March 2009. Also see Christies, New York, The Falk Collection I, Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Thursday, 20th September, 2001. Similar: Sotheby's, The Meigintang Collection, 7 April 2011, Lot 47 Note: The three plant friends who thrive in the cold weather where emblematic from the the Yuan Dynasty onwards