A Chinese blue and white 'lotus' foliate dish with convex centreQing dynasty, 18th centuryThe convex centre painted with a large, leafy lotus flower, encircled by ogival panels of insects and flowers to the lobed well, reserved on a thick diamond brocade pattern, covered overall in a transparent, bluish glaze, the exterior and base left plain, 32.5cm wide.清十八世紀 青花開光繪纏枝蓮紋花口碟