Lot 1210
1210
A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE 'LOTUS BOUQUET' DISH
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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE 'LOTUS BOUQUET' DISH

YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-35)

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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE 'LOTUS BOUQUET' DISH
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-35)
The dish has rounded sides rising from a slightly tapering foot, the exterior is painted in the early 15th century style with simulated 'heaping and piling' and a continuous composite floral meander between key-fret pattern around the rim and classic scroll around the base, the interior has a similar meander surrounding a bouquet of tied blossoming lotus stems in the medallion.
15 5/8 in. (39.7 cm.) diam.
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

The prototype for this pattern can be seen on early fifteenth century dishes illustrated by A.Pope, Chinese Porcelain from the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 31; in Mayuyama Seventy Years, Vol. I, no. 757; and in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 8, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, pl. 217.

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