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Lot Essay
The design on this dish is typically described as 'lotus bouquet' and indeed the majority of the flowers, pod and leaves belong to that auspicious plant. The 'lotus bouquet' motif was very popular in the early 15th century, and was also admired in the Qing dynasty, when copies of these dishes were made for the Qing emperors.
For comparable examples see One Man's Taste, Treasures from the Lakeside Pavilion, Baur Collection, Geneva, 1988, no. C10.; Minji meihin zuroku, Tokyo, vol. 1, 1977, pl. 38; and Alexander Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington D.C., 1956, pl. 31, top right; for a slightly smaller example see Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1998, pp. 454-5, no. 200.
For comparable examples see One Man's Taste, Treasures from the Lakeside Pavilion, Baur Collection, Geneva, 1988, no. C10.; Minji meihin zuroku, Tokyo, vol. 1, 1977, pl. 38; and Alexander Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington D.C., 1956, pl. 31, top right; for a slightly smaller example see Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1998, pp. 454-5, no. 200.