AN EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE DISH

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AN EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE DISH
MING DYNASTY, EARLY 15TH CENTURY

Well painted in inky-blue tones with pronounced 'heaping and piling', with a lotus blossom surrounded by five others radiating from the centre of the interior on scrolling stems, the design repeated as a continuous frieze on the cavetto below a classic scroll border at the mouth rim, the exterior with a chrysanthemum scroll between another classic scroll and a key-fret band at the mouth, the base unglazed and burnt to a slight rust colour in the firing (polished rim frit)
11 1/8 in. (28.2 cm.) diam., box

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Comparable examples of this dish include one illustrated by J. A. Pope, Chinese Ceramics in the Ardebil Shrine, Washington, 1956, pl. 36, 29.119; one in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 9, Japan, 1981, pl. 215, formerly from the Gustav VI Adolf Collection, no. 1940; and another illustrated by A. Joseph, Ming Porcelains, London, 1971, pl. 20.

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