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Size: D19cm

Signed and dated: Wanli period，（1563-1626 AD）

Estimate:

Final Price: RMB 620,000

Wanli Six-Character Mark
PROVENANCE
• Formerly in the private collection of a noble English family
• Formerly in a Danish private collection，acquired in the 1950’s
• The S Marchant & Son，no.M4599

An imperial blue and white moulded lotus dish modelled as an open lotus flower on a straight foot，painted in the centre with a double ruyi-head medallion enclosing two Sanskrit characters beneath two ranks of sixteen scalloped petals，the tips with scrolls and ruyi-head swirls above stylised jewels，the underside with the lower rank of lotus petals projecting tips above a band of interlocked ruyi-heads and beneath eight further Sanskrit characters framed in petals between camellia and lotus flowerheads.