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A blue and white 'lotus' petal-rimmed lightly-molded dish
Chenghua Mark, Wanli/Tianqi (1573-1627)Painted at the center with a full-faced lotus flowerhead bordered with a reserve-painted trailing scroll on a blue ground between double lines, the cavetto lightly molded and painted with two rows of radiating lotus petals divided at the tips of the upper row with wan (swastika) symbols below the petal-form blue-painted rim, the exterior sides mirroring this, a double-encircled Chenghua mark to the base. 8 3/4in (22.2cm) diameter
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明萬曆/天啟 青花蓮瓣盤 A near identical dish can be found in the Tokyo National Museum Collection, Catalogue, Tokyo, p.91, no's 343-344.This particular low-relief molded 'lotus' dish is clearly related to another group of Wanli-marked high-relif molded 'lotus' dishes centered by a Buddhist-text character and with further Tibetan lanca characters to the exterior. For examples, see Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Dynasty Porcelain, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1978, pl. 90; and Oriental Ceramics, the World's Great Collections, vol.11, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, no. 91; and another sold at Christie's, Hong Kong, 27 May 2009, lot 1868.
