A BLUE AND WHITE MOULDED 'LOTUS' DISH

WANLI UNDERGLAZE BLUE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

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A BLUE AND WHITE MOULDED 'LOTUS' DISH
WANLI UNDERGLAZE BLUE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
The dish is delicately moulded in the form of a lotus flower, supported on a short straight foot. The interior has a roundel to the centre containing a Tibetan character, encircled by two ruyi-bands and two rows of overlapping petals. The underside has a band of projecting lotus petals below a row of panels along the rim decorated with Tibetan characters and floral sprays.
7½ in. (19 cm.) diam.

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See a similar example in the Capital Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Shoudu bowuguan cang ci xuan, Wenwu chubanshe, Beijing, 1991, p. 136, no. 130. Another is illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 313. Also compare a similarly decorated dish that was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 27 May 2009, lot 1868.

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