AN EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE 'GRAPES' DISH

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AN EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE 'GRAPES' DISH
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Painted to the madellion with a fruiting grape vine issuing three bunches of fruit, the well with a composite floral scroll including camellia, rose, lotus, chrysanthemum, aster and pink, the flaring straight rim with a band of cresting waves, the exterior with another composite scroll (restored)--14 7/8in. (37.8cm.) diam.

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Cf. Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. IX, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, pl. 213 for an identical example formerly in the Gustav VI Adolf Collection, no. 1981; for another cf. Oreintal Ceramics, Kondansha Series, vol. III, Percial David Foundation, London, pl. 74; and a barbed rim dish with identical decoration, Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 37

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