A blue and white lotus dish. Qianlong period ...

A blue and white lotus dish. Qianlong period (1735-1796)

Qianlong six-character mark and of the period

With rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, decorated in underglaze-blue to the interior with a medallion of four stylized lotus heads with scrolling leaves, the exterior similarly decorated. Damaged.

Diameter 19.3 cm

** Provenance
German private collection, acquired in the 1930s in Japan