A Large Celadon Foliate-Rimmed Dish, 15th Century

moulded with fluted petals in the well and carved at the centre of the interior with an hexafoil trellis-pattern panel, the exterior with corresponding flutes, all under a bluish-green glaze pooling in the areas of lowest relief and thinning at the foliate rim -- 17 7/8 in. (45.5 cm.) diam. Price Realised £10,625 ($16,660)

Provenance: Bluett and Sons, London, paper label to base.

Christie's. Chinese Art. 7 November 2008. London, South Kensington. Image Christies LTD 2008. www.christie's.com