Lot 43: Large Blue and White Dish with Floral Design 青花花卉纹大盘
明永乐 Ming Dynasty, Yongle Period
Description
来源:于八十年代初购自新加坡知名收藏家旧藏
Provenance: Acquired from the collection of a prominent Singapore collector in the early 1980s
Diameter 口径 40.5 cm Height 高 7.1 cm Foot Diameter 足径 26.5 cm
Guide Price 起拍价: SGD 750,000
盘折沿,弧壁,圈足,砂底。内口沿饰一周缠枝灵芝纹,盘内壁饰一周花卉纹,盘心青花双圈内绘瓜果纹,盘外壁双弦纹内绘缠枝花卉一周。足内涩胎,有火石红。
The dish is potted with an everted rim, rounded sides and a ring foot, the base left unglazed with a gritty surface. The inner rim is decorated with a continuous band of scrolling lingzhi, and the cavetto with a band of floral motifs. The centre is painted within double underglaze-blue circles with a fruiting melon design. The exterior is encircled by double line borders enclosing a continuous scroll of flowering branches. The interior of the foot is unglazed and shows areas of flint-red firing marks.
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