A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'GRAPES' DISH

A RARE BLUE AND WHITE \'GRAPES\' DISH

YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425)

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.\'

15 in. (38.1 cm.) diam.