Lot Essay
The decoration seems to be freely adapted from that of fourteenth century, rather than early Ming, blue and white porcelain; flowers and leaves are drawn summarily with little reference to the Chinese original, in the same manner as the blue and white tiles of about 1425 from Damascus. See:
Lane, A.: Later Islamic Pottery, London, 1957, pl.13B.
Lane, A.: Later Islamic Pottery, London, 1957, pl.13B.