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Blue and white porcelain dish. The dish is boldly decorated in the centre with a flowering branch of peony with leaves and buds, within a wall border of freely drawn lotus meander. The everted rim is decorated with eight evenly spaced sprays of fruit and flowers, the exterior with a similar lotus meander. The base is unglazed.
History note: Bought from Sotheby's, April 14th 1953, lot 77 (Geoffrey Hedley Sale), by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Bought from Sotheby's by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Diameter: 40 cm
Height: 7.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1953-04-23) by Sotheby's
Ming Dynasty
1403
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1424
Base
Accession number: C.3-1953
Primary reference Number: 74475
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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