With shallow, rounded sides flaring to a slightly everted rim, the interior decorated with a central lotus blossom surrounded by four similar blossoms borne on enclosing underglaze blue stems with scrolling tendrils and green leaves forming a densely partterned medallion and repeated in a frieze of eight blossoms around the exterior below a narrow border of C-scrolls and dots, all in iron-red, yellow and green glaze and underglaze blue of bright tone within blue double-line borders. 6 1/2in (15.6cm) diam., box

Provenance:
The Collection of Henri Maspero (1882-1945)
S. Marchant &Son, London, 2007