A doucai 'pomegranate' dish, Qing dynasty, early 18th century | 清十八世紀初 鬥彩花果紋盤 《大明成化年製》仿款

A doucai 'pomegranate' dish

Qing dynasty, early 18th century

清十八世紀初 鬥彩花果紋盤

《大明成化年製》仿款

with rounded sides supported on a slightly tapering foot, the center of the interior with a pomegranate shrub growing from rockwork and bearing three ripe red fruits, the cavetto with fruiting sprigs of grape, plum and pomegranate all between double-line borders above and below, the underside with fruiting plum branches, the base with an apocryphal Chenghua six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle

Diameter 6 ¼ in., 15.9 cm