A FINE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE DISH

PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN FROM A EUROPEAN FAMILY COLLECTION

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A FINE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE DISH
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Painted in brilliant tones to the centre of the interior with a composite floral arabesque of four larger flower-heads including peony, mallow and camellia, with three smaller blooms and a fruit, the well with composite floral scroll of eleven flower-heads including pomegranate, camellia and peony below cresting waves at the flaring straight rim, the exterior with a further composite scroll of eleven flower-heads, the cobalt with extensive 'heaping and piling', areas of the footring and base burnt orange in the firing--16in. (40.6cm.) diam., box

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Similar examples are illustrated in various works including Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, Catalogue, no. 5; Mingdai Taoci Danquan, p. 156; Pope, Chinese Porcelain form the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 34, no. 29.88; Ayers, Baur Collection, Catalogue, vol. II, no. A 140; Philadelphia Exhibition of Ming Blue and White, 1949, Catalogue, no. 38; also O.C.S. of Hong Kong, Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain and Related Underglaze-Red, Catalogue, p. 63, no. 9

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