A blue and white porcelain dish - Ming Dynasty, Jiajing Mark and Period

A blue and white porcelain dish - Ming Dynasty, Jiajing Mark and Period

Its shallow curving well painted with a roundel and band of lotus pods and flowers in bloom amid leaf scrolls, the exterior walls encircled by a narrow xiangcai band above a lotus pattern incised to the biscuit beneath the colorless glaze, the six-character mark written in regular script within a double ring centering the deeply recessed base (hairline crack). 5 7/8in (15cm) diameter - Sold for $3,000 plus Premium and tax

Bonhams. Fine Asian Works of Art, 18 Dec 2007. 220 San Bruno Avenue, San Francisco, California