decorated in underglaze cobalt blue, viridian green and relief red with black outlines, with a leafy tuft issuing floral sprays, including three large carnations, tulips, hyacinths and prunus branches, the rim with breaking wave pattern, floral details to exterior, old collection label to underside and single red bole dot in the centre

In overall good condition, old drill-hole to rim, abrasion along external edge, with break and associated restoration including overpainting, drill hole for hanging to foot, old collection label: "Gerfaud: Emballage - Exportation - Objets d'Art, 14, rue de la Grange-Bateliere - 75009 Paris (1) 47 70 83 96 / (1) 48 24 21 36", as viewed.
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This classic dish with its red-spotted blue tulips and roses can be compared to a similar dish in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. no. 56.69.1). Two of the flowers, a carnation and a tulip were depicted with breaking stems creating a "[...] poignant effect, full of motion, [was] that of a garden in the throes of a storm" (Atasoy and Raby 1989, no.697).