A rare Chinese blue and white dish late 15th/early 16th century

A rare Chinese blue and white dish late 15th/early 16th century, painted with peony issuing from rockwork within a band of entwined threads, the rim with six large peony blooms amidst a scrolling foliate design, the reverse with similar decoration, 33.7cm.

Cf. Krahl and Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Vol.II, p.557, no.709 for a similar dish.

十五/十六世紀  青花長命富貴大盤