Chinese Blue and White Ming-Style Lotus Dish

The dish is decorated in rich cobalt blue characteristically 'heaped and pile' with a central ribbon-tied lotus plant bouquet incorporating saggitaria and a stalk of millet, encircled by a band of composite foliate scroll composed of thirteen blossoms. A narrow band of classic scroll at the rim is repeated on the exterior above a similar frieze and a border of key fret, D: 13 IN