AN ANNAMESE BLUE AND WHITE DISH, 15TH/16TH CENTURY
AN ANNAMESE BLUE AND WHITE DISH, 15TH/16TH CENTURYEstimate $3,000 – $5,000
- Lot Sold $5,800 (Hammer Price)
- $6,960 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
with shallow rounded sides and everted lipped rim, painted in the centre with a stylized lotus flower encircled by leaves, the well with flowering foliage below a band of classic scroll on the rim, the exterior with lotus petal lappets, the base with a brown wash, fitted box
36.5 CM
PROVENANCE
Omuta Ltd, Shatin, 1979
Private collection, Melbourne.
Similar dishes are illustrated in Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, Vietnamese Ceramics, 1982 Cat. No. 191; by John Guy Oriental Trade Ceramics in Southeast Asia 1980, Cat. No. 101; and by Adrian Joseph Chinese and Annamese Ceramics, pl 102 Similar dishes were sold at Christie's New York, 20 September 2000, lot 173; and Christie's South Kensington 10 May 2006 lot 114, from the Andrew Franklin Collection