Well potted with gently curving sides, painted in vivid tones of underglaze-blue with characteristic 'heaping and piling' in the center with a bouquet of five lotus flowers encircled by double concentric rings, surrounded by a composite floral meanders in the cavetto beneath a floral scroll band at the lip, with a similar flower scroll on the exterior, the base unglazed, 15.5 inch diameter. Provenance: Property from the collection of Mr. and Mrs John Keane, UK, and Menlo Park, California, by descent