A BLUE AND WHITE QUADRILOBED 'LOTUS' JARDINIERE MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY |

the lobed sides supported on a four broad ruyi-form feet and rising to an everted rim, the sides delicately painted with scrolling lotus stems each issuing numerous leaves and terminating in a large blossom, all between a line border above and a band of ruyi heads below, each ruyi-form foot with a floral bough and a scrolling border, the rim with scrolling wisps between line borders, the center of the base with a Japanese gilt-lacquer repair, Japanese lacquer cover, Japanese wood box (4)

Kuji Takuma, Minsho Toji Zukan [Porcelains of the Early Ming Dynasty], Tokyo, 1968, pl. 16. 

A rim crack measuring apprx. 4 cm. The base with a small ring of gilt-lacquer repair. Overall with light wear and firing imperfections, including firing tears with associated hairline cracks and glaze lines, and patch of kiln contact at the rim. Some of the tears have been consolidated.
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