A LARGE CHINESE LONGQUAN CELADON DISH

EARLY MING DYNASTY

Rising from a thick tapering foot to an everted rim, carved to the centre with a single flowerhead growing amidst leaves, the design surrounded by scrolls of stylised foliage, the exterior with simple incised rings encircling the foot, all coated in a celadon green glaze, with a paper label for John Sparks Ltd to the base, 43.9cm.