A RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER DISH

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A RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER DISH
HONGWU

The dish is painted at the centre of the interior with a single lingzhi spray within triple circles, surrounded by a continuous camellia scroll with six flower-heads borne on leafy vines, the well is undecorated, the flat everted rim decorated with a key-fret border, the exterior painted with a band of lotus lappets enclosing trefoils, the base unglazed and burnt orange in the firing (crack to rim)
7 3/4 in. (19.5 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Compare to a related dish decorated with a peony spray surrounded by continuous chrysanthemum scroll from the collection of Michel Calmann, Musee Guimet, Paris, illustrated by Lion-Goldschmit, La Porcelaine Ming, p. 77, no. 45.

(US$8,000-10,000)

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