A SMALL CLOISONNE ENAMEL 'LOTUS' DISH MING DYNASTY, XUANDE PERIOD

the slightly convex well brightly enamelled and gilded with an octafoil rosette of eight radiating teardrops within green-edged red lappets ringed with blue-centred yellow barbed lappets edged with red, encircled by six scrolling lotus in contrasting colours, all on a turquoise ground, the reverse similarly decorated with lotus flowers surrounding a double vajra, the rim gilded

There are various areas of restoration to the enamel throughout the interior and to some more minor areas to the exterior.
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A comparable larger dish decorated with a related lotus design, in the Pierre Uldry Collection, is illustrated in Helmut Brinker and Albert Lutz, Chinese Cloisonné. The Pierre Uldry Collection, New York, 1989, cat. no. 14.