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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘LOTUS’ PETAL-RIMMED LIGHTLY- A BLUE AND WHITE ‘LOTUS’ PETAL-RIMMED LIGHTLY-
MOLDED DISH MOLDED DISH
Chenghua Mark, Wanli/Tianqi (1573-1627) Chenghua Mark, Wanli/Tianqi (1573-1627)
Painted at the center with a full-faced lotus flowerhead bordered Similar but paler to the previous dish, painted at the center with a full-
with a reserve-painted trailing scroll on a blue ground between faced lotus flowerhead bordered with a reserve-painted trailing scroll
double lines, the cavetto lightly molded and painted with two rows on a blue ground between double lines, the cavetto lightly molded
of radiating lotus petals divided at the tips of the upper row with and painted with two rows of radiating lotus petals divided at the tips
wan (swastika) symbols below the petal-form blue-painted rim, the of the upper row with wan (swastika) symbols below the petal-form
exterior sides mirroring this, a double-encircled Chenghua mark to blue-painted rim, the exterior sides mirroring this, a double-encircled
the base. Chenghua mark to the base.
8 3/4in (22.2cm) diameter 8 3/4in (22.2cm) diameter
$1,800 - 2,500 $1,500 - 2,000

明萬曆/天啟 青花蓮瓣盤 明萬曆/天啟 青花蓮瓣盤

A near identical dish can be found in the Tokyo National Museum See Previous footnote
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.

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