A Rare Ming-Style Blue & White Lotus Bouquet Dish, with DaQing YongZheng NianZhi Mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the period. The dish is delicately potted with shallow rounded sides and is supported on a short foot. The interior is finely painted in underglaze-blue with simulated 'heaping and piling' to depict a bunch of lotus flowers encircled by a band of ten flower heads with leafy scrolls. The exterior is similarly decorated with flowers and leafy scrolls. The dish is decorated with a classic scroll border to the interior and a key-fret border to the exterior. Condition is very good overall with a tight hairline near rim, also a few iron spots and glaze pits and a small gold patch. Diameter 13.5 in Height 2.7 in