A LARGE POLYCHROME DISH MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

the rounded sides rising from a short tapering foot to a slightly everted rim, freely painted to the interior with a ruyi medallion enclosing a rocky landscape scene depicting a boat crossing a lake filled with lotus, all within a trellis-diaper band at the rim, the exterior with four similar scenes, the base with an underglaze-blue four-character 'shu fu chi chi'

Kunst Industri Museet, Copenhagen, 1950.

Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 856.

Chinese Ceramic Treasures, a Selection from the Ulricehamn East Asian Museum, Including The Carl Kempe Collection. The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 2002, pl. 1035.

Overall in good condition. A chip restored at the rim (approx 2 x 1.5cm). Some wear to the enamels on the central design. The foot with a few firing cracks a surface chip 3.5cm on the inside. Some splashes of green enamels scattered beneath the base (see detail of the reverse p. 240 in the catalogue).
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