1-234-452 - The Museum of East Asian Art/Heritage Images

Reverse decorated blue and white dish, Ming dynasty, China, 1575-1599. Large blue and white dish with flat rim decorated in the central medallion with a pair of birds in a prunus tree in white reserve against a blue background. The cavetto has a band of blue ruyi heads. The broad flat rim has five birds in flight and five alternating peony flower sprays with birds on branch in blue against a white ground. The reverse has zig-zag prunus sprays and trident-shaped motifs round the base foot rim.