AN EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE DISH, the centre painted with extensive 'heaping and piling' with a composite floral arabesque including blooms of lotus, camellia, chrysanthemum, hibiscus, peony and mallow, the moulded well with similar seperate arabesques below a stylised lotus scroll around the everted rim, the reverse with various flower sprays (rim ground and bound in metal), Yongle