明早期 龍泉窰青釉蓮花紋葵口盤

stoutly potted, the flaring fluted sides rising to a flat bracket-lobed rim, supported on a short tapering foot, the center impressed with a roundel enclosing a leafy peony blossom, the cavetto freely incised with lotus flowers borne on a leafy stem, covered with a lustrous sea-green glaze thinning at the edges and pooling within the recesses, an unglazed circle on the base burnt orange

A 0.3cm circular aperture to the base, which appears to be post-manufacture and which does not go through to the interior. Several shallow chips to the unglazed section of the underside. Two glaze pulls to exterior rim, measuring approximately 0.9cm and 0.7cm. Characteristic minor firing imperfections.
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This dish, with its crisply fluted lines and elegantly bracketed rim, belongs to a distinct type produced at the Longquan kilns during the late 14th and early 15th centuries. A dish of this form and similar decoration is illustrated in Green - Longquan Celadon of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2009, cat. no. 30.  A similar example lacking the carved floral motif along the sides, was sold in these rooms, 20th March 2012, lot 37.