A FINE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS BOUQUET' DISH

MING BLUE AND WHITE THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A FINE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS BOUQUET' DISH
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Painted at the centre of the interior with a bouquet of lotus flowers, leaves, a seed-pod, saggitaria and aquatic plants tied with a bowed ribbon encirlced by three concentric rings below a composite floral scroll of thirteen flower-heads including pairs of chrysanthemum, lotus, peony, rose, hibiscus, camellia, and a single pomegranate flower beneath classic scroll at the rim, the exterior with composite floral scroll of fourteen flower-heads comprising seven pairs of flowers between key-pattern around the foot and a border of classic scroll below the lipped rim, the cobalt with extensive 'heaping and piling', the base unglazed
13 1/2in. (34.3cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

Compare a similarly decorated dish of this size in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, no. 135; one from the National Palace Museum, Taibei, illustrated in the Catalogue, Blue and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book II, pt. 2, col. pl. 59; another from the T.Y. Chao Collection included in the Hong Kong O.C.S. Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, City Museum and Art Gallery, 1975, Catalogue no.8; and the example from the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1987, illustrated in the Catalogue, pt.I, col.pl. 10 and also included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition, Joined Colors, Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1993, Catalogue no. 7.

Similar dishes were sold in our London Rooms, 10 December 1990, lot 165; and these Rooms, 29 September 1992, lot 470

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