A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE GRAPES DISH

Reference: ART1007412

The interior is well-painted with a leafy grapevine bearing three bunches of grapes as well as coiling tendrils, encircled by a band of composite foliate scroll in the rounded cavetto, the meandering leafy stem bearing twelve different flowers and buds. The everted rim is decorated with a band of wind-tossed waves, and the exterior with a further band of composite foliate scroll, all in inky tones of underglaze blue enhanced by 'heaping and piling. 9 cm. height, 41 cm. diam.