A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS BOUQUET' SAUCER-DISHES

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A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS BOUQUET' SAUCER-DISHES
DAOGUANG SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

Each painted in Ming style with a tied lotus bouquet surrounded by a composite floral meander below a classic scroll border around the rim, the exterior with a similar floral meander between classic scroll and key-pattern--4 5/8in. (11.8cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

A Qianlong dish of this size and design was sold in our London Rooms, June 20 1984, lot 311 and again in New York, 2 December 1989, lot 355

For examples of the early 15th Century patterns painted with slightly varying interpretations of this bouquet pattern see Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 31

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