BF 100 A small blue and white dish

明崇禎 青花如意寶珠紋盤

Chongzhen period (1628-1644)

The shallow dish is painted in the centre with an octagonal panel enclosing flaming jewels floating on crested waves. The well and everted rim has four panels enclosing a fruiting branch reserved in various geometric grounds divided by ruyi heads. The reverse has four scattered leaves. The base has a single line border.
Diameter 15.2 cm

Provenance: An old Dutch private collection 

A very similar dish in the Michael Butler collection is illustrated by Teresa Canepa and Katherine Butler in Leaping the Dragon, The Sir Michael Butter Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London 2021, fig.III.1.220

BF 100 明崇禎 青花如意寶珠紋盤
時代：明崇禎，1628至1644年。
特徵：淺壁，折沿侈口，八角形盤心描繪浮於波浪上的如意寶珠。盤緣幾何錦地上有如意首與果枝紋。外壁下緣裝飾四片葉紋，底足內有藍色圓圈。
尺寸：直徑15.2公分。
來源：荷蘭私人舊藏。