A large Annamese blue and white dish, 14th century

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A large Annamese blue and white dish, 14th century
With curving sides and flaring lipped rim, painted at the centre with a stylised flower encircled by leaves, the well with flowering foliage below a band of classic scroll at the rim, the exterior with lotus petal lappets -- 14 5/8 in. (37.2 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Purchased in Singapore, 20 January 1958.

Exhibited

Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, Chinesische Keramik, 21 March - 2 May 1965, no. 97.

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Lot Essay

Similar dishes are illustrated by J. A. Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, London, 1981, pl. 57; by A. Joseph, Chinese and Annamese Ceramics, 1973, nos. 97 - 102, from the Ian Wasserman Collection; and by L. Locsin, Oriental Ceramics Discovered in the Philippines, 1967, pl. 147.

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