the low, rounded sides rising from a gently tapered foot, the exterior molded with overlapping upright lotus petals, covered overall in an unctuous bluish-green glaze, save for the foot ring burnt orange during firing

Walter Hochstadler, New York, January 1940. 
Mathias Komor, New York.
Collection of Pauline (1910-2000) and Myron S. Falk, Jr. (1906-1992), coll. no. 00206.
Christie's New York, 20th September 2011, lot 120. 

Neolithic to Ming, Chinese Objects- The Myron S. Falk Collection, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1957, cat. no. 23.
Inaugural Exhibition of the Robert F. Reiff Gallery of Asian Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, September 2005.

The dish is in overall good condition with only minor expected surface wear (including to the tiny burst glaze bubbles at the rim). The color of the glaze is slightly bluer than in the illustration in the printed catalog.
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