Dish with Blossoming Plum and Crescent Moon, mid- to late 15th century

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Dish with Blossoming Plum and Crescent Moon, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Chenghua period (1465–87), mid- to late 15th century, China, Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware), H. 1 3/4 in. ( cm); Diam. 8 1/2 in. ( cm); Diam. of foot 5 in. ( cm), Ceramics, Suggestive of an evening in early spring, and a subject of Chinese poetry, the theme of a flowering plum under a crescent moon first appears in Chinese ceramics in the twelfth century. On this dish, a dramatic rock of the type that was mined at Lake Tai on the border of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province, and used for gardens, has been added to the scene

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