Blue and white porcelain dish called "Lotus bouquet", in the Ming style, China, 19th centuryThe center of the dish is decorated with a bouquet of flowers and lotus leaves, as well as millet and other plants. The marli shows alternating chrysanthemums and peonies amidst foliage, repeated on its reverse. The bottom is in unglazed cookie. Diameter: 28 cmThe decoration of this dish imitates one of the peculiarities of Ming-period blue underglaze porcelain (called in English "heaped and piled") characterized by the presence on the surface of the glaze of small dark, purple/black spots due to a high concentration of pigments or impurities in the cobalt . 十九世纪青花一束莲纹盘