A blue underglaze painted thin porcelain dish. The white cavetto, framed by the brim decorated with birds and sprays desily interweaved, circumscribes the central circle on which five large flowered corollas arranged in quincunxes stand out. Manufacture mark at the base.
This type of pottery, inspired to the Yuan and Ming, was mainly intended for export to Europe and to the Middle East. Its main feature is the cursive style of the decoration on a ceramic body not always matching high quality standards, being it subject to cracking and often affected by cooking defects. Nonetheless, the final product always strikes for its expressiveness, personality and high decorative value, which is exactly why these products have been very popular in the West for centuries.