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A RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE DISH
A RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE DISH YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1424) Painted in soft tones of deep cobalt blue punctuated by characteristic 'heaping and piling' with a slender interlacing vine bearing a central blossom and three subsidiary blossoms and buds including peony, camellia and mallow surrounded by their respective leaves, below a continuous band of composite floral scroll to the cavetto and a band of foliate vines encircling the rim, the exterior with a further frieze of eleven composite flowerheads, the base unglazed 16 1/8 in. (41 cm.) diam.