A Blue and White Charger
Ming Dynasty, Wanli Period
with curved sides rising to a lobed everted rim, the interior well painted with geese amidst a lush riverbed landscape of flowers and craggy rocks, all enclosed in an eight-lobed medallion with alternating scale and maze patterns between ruyi-heads, the curved rim decorated with radiating lotus petal cartouches featuring opposite pairs of fans and stylized motifs, peaches, and knotted tassels in the narrower panels, the exterior with eight roundels containing butterflies and thin panels with lines, all in a deep underglaze-blue
19 7/8 in., 50.5 cm