A large Chinese blue and white ‘grape’ charger dish, Ming dynasty, Jiajing period
明嘉靖 青花葡萄紋盤

The finely potted large dish with rounded sides, rising from a short tapered foot to a wide everted rim, the interior richly decorated in cobalt-blue with a central medallion enclosing a large leafy bunch of grapes and further encircled at the wide rim with the beribboned auspicious emblems which are interpersed with floral sprays, the exterior further decorated with fruiting sprays beneath a band of flowering prunus branches

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Dimensions: 44.5cm diameter

Sotheby's, London, 5 November 2014, lot 100:

Private collection

來源：

倫敦蘇富比，2014年11月5日，拍品編號100

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Please refer to a similar dish housed in the Santos Palace in Lisbon and mounted in the famous conical ceiling, illustrated in Déléry, Claire, and Huei-Chung Tsao. Chinese Porcelains of the Santos Palace. Lienart: MNAAG, 2021, pp. 150-151, another illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul, Yuan and Ming Dynasty Porcelains, London, 1986, pl. 884; another in Ridho. Padang, Sumatra, National Museum collection, Jakarta.1977, fig. 271, inv. 653; another in De Matos, Pinto. Amaral Cabral Collection, Lisbon. 1997, pp. 76-77, cat. 17 (formerly in the Helena Hortega Collection); another in Miedema. Princessehof Museum Collection. 1964, K3, inv. GRV 1929-035 (formerly in the Reinier Verbeek Collection): another in the Van Tilburg Collection, University of Pretoria, inv. 293074.