China, Wanli period (1572-1620). Painted in underglaze blue on the show side with an encircled figural scene, surrounded by a border of radiating wide and narrow panels enclosing repeated designs of stylised plants and figural scenes. The backside with further stylized panels.
Condition: Manufacturing flaws, fritting to rim and a small area of glaze recess. Provenance: Holzapfel collection, Geneva, Switzerland. This lot was acquired by a third-generation member of the Holzapfel family after 1995 and has remained in the family ever since.