A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE DISH, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

with gently rounded sides rising from a short tapering foot, painted in rich cobalt blue tones to the interior with a medallion enclosing a leafy composite floral scroll, encircled by a classic scroll band and further floral scroll and key-fret bands in the well, the exterior similarly decorated, thebase unglazed
35CM

• Lot Sold $6,500 (Hammer Price)
• $7,930 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Koller Auctions Zurich, 27th March 2010, lot 406 This dish is based on an early Ming dynasty prototype, comparable MIng Dynasty examples include one illustrated by J.A. Pope, Chinese Ceramics in the Ardebil Shrine, Washington, 1956, pl. 36, 29.119