A LARGE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE DISH

2ND HALF 16TH CENTURY

The interior painted with a medallion containing two phoenix amidst flowers and foliage, with a band of scrolling flowerheads to the rim, the exterior decorated with stylised clouds and cranes in flight, with a simple scroll border to the footrim, the base unglazed, 42.6cm.

Provenance: formerly in the collection of Cheng and Frank Lammers.

Cf. C J A Jorg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p.38, no.13 for a similar dish.