Lot 4. A large 'Longquan' celadon 'Lotus' dish, Ming dynasty, 15th-16th century.  Diameter 16 1/2  in., 41.2 cm. Estimate 12,000 — 15,000 USD. Lot sold 18,750 USD. Photo: Sotheby's.

with shallow rounded sides and a broad everted rim, the interior boldly carved with a single lotus spray within a double line medallion, the well undecorated, with three gently undulating scrolling-leaf sections encircling the rim, covered with a lustrous semi-transparent sea-green glaze, a wide unglazed ring on the base burnt orange-brown in the firing. 

Property from the collection of John F. Lewis, Jr.

Provenance: Collection of Karl Bacher, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
Sammlung Karl Bacher, Hugo Helbing, Frankfurt, Main, 7th-8th December 1932, lot 709.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 23rd-24th March 1948, lot 402.Diameter 16 1/2  in., 41.2 cm

Exhibition: Ausstellung chinesischer keramik: Aus Frankfurter und auswärtigem priva-und museumbesitz, Kunst-gewerbe museum, Frankfurt am Main, 1923, cat. no. 245.

Note: Compare a closely related dish in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the exhibition Green. Longquan Celadon of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2011, cat. no. 36. 

Sotheby's. Monochrome, New York, 15 sept. 2015