A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE LARGE SQUARE DEEP DISH LATE WANLI...

A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE LARGE SQUARE DEEP DISH LATE WANLI/EARLY TIANQI, CIRCA 1620 青花莲荷纹方盘 万历/天启 约1620 painted in the centre with a turtle in a lotus pond scene with large leaves, flowers and aquatic plants, with insect in flight, encircled by pendant tassels, the flat everted blue ground rim with lotus flowers between stylised branches, with indented corners, with original Edo period wood box 17.5cm diameter PROVENANCE: From a Private Japanese collection, Tokyo Only two other similar dishes appear to be recorded: one is included by Georg Weishaupt in 'Chinese Porcelain fo the 17th Century for Japan', in which it is featured in the foreword on p 10 and is illustrated in colour, no 50, pp 90/1; another is illustrated by Masahiko Kawahara in Kosometsuke, Monochrone Section, 1977, no 325, p 86 It is very rare to find square dishes in late Ming and especially rare to find a turtle painted on Chinese porcelain.

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