Lot 993. A large blue and white barbed-rim 'floral' Kraak dish, late Ming dynasty. Diameter 20¼ in., 51.5 cm. Estimate: 1,000 - 1,500 USD. Lot sold: 12,500 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's.

each base with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark in underglaze blue (2).

Provenance: Solveig & Anita Gray, London.

Exhibited: St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, 2009-2018 (on loan).

Sotheby's. The Hundred Antiques: Fine and Decorative Asian Art, New York, 24 June 2020