MING BLUE AND WHITE PEONIES PLATE

拍品描述

Dimensions: Length: 39.2 cm, Width: 39.2 cm, Height: 7 cm Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue and White Peony Porcelain Plate. The plate has a broad wide central interior, rounded mouth lip, thick and large, raised on correspondence footed ring base slight concave. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in white base color which contrast against blue color, depicted of abundant peony blossom interspersed foliage. The Chinese name for Peony even translates to most beautiful. The Peony?s thick ruffled blooms and ability to return spring after spring for 100 years. The Peony is mainly known for honor to their entire family through success, Wealth and riches, Romance and romantic love, It symbolizes wealth and honor in the sense of high rank, having an official position, or high social status.The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark greyish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim.

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