YongZheng - A Fine Large Ming-style Blue & White ‘Melon’ Dish Yongzheng Mark
 
 

"With shallow rounded sides, the interior well painted in fifteenth century style in subtly shaded
underglaze blue with seven lobed melons borne on a leafy, flowering vine below a band of composite foliated scroll in the well, the everted rim painted with a wave border within a moulded outer edge, with six detached fruiting branches on the exterior, including peach, lychee, pomegranate, crab apple, loquat and cherry.
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