"A Tianqi L Ming Blue And White Saucer Dish"
A blue and white saucer dish decorated in the centre with a stork standing in a lotus pond within a spiral border of various diaper designs. Tianqi 1621-27.Diameter; 8 3/8" (21.0 cm).
Condition, slight frits.
Previously sold at Christies on 4.2.1999, lot 857.
See 'Leaping the Dragon Gate, The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain' by Teressa Canepa and Katherine Butler. No. III.1.195, page 149, for a dish with a similar spiral border, diaper grounds and a hatched rim.
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