A RARE BLUE AND WHITE MOULDED 'LOTUS' DISH WANLI SIX CHARACT...

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£15,000

A RARE BLUE AND WHITE MOULDED 'LOTUS' DISH
WANLI SIX CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 
明 万历 青花莲瓣盘 大明万历年制 
painted in tones of underglaze blue on the interior with a central medallion enclosing a Tibetan character encircled by ruyi heads, from which radiate two rows of lotus petals, the outer row enclosing stylised spiral motifs, and painted to the underside with alternating Tibetan characters and floral sprays above a row of projecting petal tips 
19.3cm diam

NOTE: For a similar dish see; Christie's New York, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Part I & II, 15 September 2011, lot 1476.
Another similar dishes are housed in the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, illustrated in Lu Minghua, Shanghai bowuguan cangpin yanjiu daxi: Mingdai guanyao ciqi [Ming imperial porcelain], Shanghai, 2007, pl. 3-94; the National Palace Museum, Taipei, published in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum: Blue-and-White Ware of The Ming Dynasty, vol. VI, Hong Kong, 1963, pl. 20; the Baur Collection, included in John Ayers, The Baur Collection: Ming Porcelains and Other Wares, vol. II, Geneva, 1969, pl. A 185; and the British Museum, London, illustrated in Jessica Harrison-Hall, Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pls 11:101 and 11:102.





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one lotus petal has been restored, overall in good condition, with natural firing imperfections, glaze gap,and a few firing spots.