A finely carved 'Longquan' celadon-glazed 'lotus' dish, Ming dynasty, 15th century | 明十五世纪 龍泉窰青釉番蓮紋盤

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 21st May 1979, lot 29.

Spink & Son., London, July 1979.

Collection of Dr. George S. Hayer Jr. (1930-2015).

Christie's New York, 23rd March 2018, lot 923.

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香港蘇富比1979年5月21日，編號29

Spink & Son，倫敦，1979年7月

George S. Hayer Jr. (1930-2015) 博士收藏

紐約佳士得2018年3月23日，編號923

Skillfully delineated, a single stylized lotus spray in the center of the dish is surrounded by a band of lotus blooms on the well, all beneath a band of classic floral scrolls at the rim. The exterior is also similarly decorated with a band of key-fret around the foot.

See a closely related example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in Tianxia Longquan: Longquan qingci yu quanqiu hua / Longquan of the World: Longquan Celadon and Globalization, vol. 2, Beijing, 2019, cat. no. 165, where Huang Weiwen attributes the dish to be produced around the reigns of the Zhengtong to Tianshun emperors, citing similarities of decoration between Longquan examples and closely related blue and white dishes excavated at the Jingdezhen sites of the period. Another closely related dish, of slightly larger size, is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Bilu - Mingdai Longquan yao qingci / Green – Longquan Celadon of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 2009, cat. no. 45.