A blue and white porcelain deep dish - Jiajing Mark and Period

A blue and white porcelain deep dish - Jiajing Mark and Period

Its curving well painted with a roundel and band of lotus pods and flowers in bloom amid leaf scrolls, the exterior walls encircled by a 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). 6 1/2in (16.5cm) diameter - Sold for $1,800 plus Premium and tax

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