China, late Ming dynasty (17th century). Painted in underglaze blue on the show side with an encircled bird among plants and flowers, surrounded by a border of radiating wide and narrow panels enclosing repeated floral and abstract designs.
Condition: With few chips and two cracks to rim as well as erosion to foot rim. Provenance: Holzapfel collection, Geneva, Switzerland. This lot was acquired by second generation members of the Holzapfel family after 1970 and has remained in the family ever since.