A fine Ming-style Blue and White 'Lotus' Dish mark and period of Yongzheng

with a broad base and rounded sides rising from a gently tapered foot to a lipped rim, the interior painted with simulated 'heaping and piling' with a ribboned lotus bouquet surrounded by a continuous stylised floral scroll with various blooms in the cavetto, below an undulating scroll band below the rim, the reverse similarly decorated between key fret and scroll borders, the base inscribed with a six-character mark within a double-circle

Christie's New York, 1st June 1990, lot 248.

Another dish of this design, of the same large size and of Yongzheng mark and period, is illustrated in Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. XIX, fig. 2. Compare also a dish sold in these rooms, 20th May 1986, lot 42; and another from the R.I. Cherridge collection, also sold in these rooms, 20th May 1987, lot 441.