A BLUE AND WHITE DISH, MING DYNASTY, WANLI PERIOD

• Lot Sold $4,000 (Hammer Price)
• $4,800 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

the interior painted with a central medallion of ducks and a crane beside a lotus pond, within tasselled diaper panels around the cavetto, and scrolls enclosing the bajixiang around the flared rim, the underside with floral sprays and ribboned emblems
29.5CM

PROVENANCE
Windsor Antiques, Melbourne 1966

CONDITION

Several small chips and frits around the rim, the interior with some raised glaze adhesions and bubble pitting and indents inside and out, some surface wear and scratches , the base unglazed possibly ground.

 

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