A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE DISH, the rounded sides rising to an everted rim with slightly upturned lip, painted to the centre of the interior with a ribboned lotus bouquet below a composite floral scroll at the well, the rim with a frieze of classic floral scrolls, the exterior similarly decorated between three-line borders (minute rim chip restored), Qianlong seal mark and of the period | Christie's

Lot 231

231

A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE DISH, the rounded sides rising to an everted rim with slightly upturned lip, painted to the centre of the interior with a ribboned lotus bouquet below a composite floral scroll at the well, the rim with a frieze of classic floral scrolls, the exterior similarly decorated between three-line borders (minute rim chip restored), Qianlong seal mark and of the period

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A FINE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE DISH, the rounded sides rising to an everted rim with slightly upturned lip, painted to the centre of the interior with a ribboned lotus bouquet below a composite floral scroll at the well, the rim with a frieze of classic floral scrolls, the exterior similarly decorated between three-line borders (minute rim chip restored), Qianlong seal mark and of the period
41.2cm. diam.

Lot Essay

Although both the form and the central design of this dish are well known in the 18th Century, this dish appears to be an unrecorded example with these two elements combined.

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