Of slightly everted mouth rim, blue glaze ground reversed to the white peony pattern, the dish has repaired traces. Blue-glazed white porcelain is an innovation at Jingdezhen in the Yuan dynasty, with its contrasting blue and white colour and good decorative effect. This decorative variety was developed at Jingdezhen kilns during the Xuande period of the Ming dynasty, with more delicate engravings and a greater variety of shapes and decorative subjects, such as plates, bowls and zun, and decorative subjects such as dragons, fish and lotus, daylilies, folded flowers and fruits, and entwined flowers. Width:39cm, Height:6cm, Auction Result Comparison: Compare a related blue ground white reversed peony plate, dated at the Xuande reign of the Ming dynasty at the Sotheby’s New York in Ming: the Intervention of Imperial Taste lot6 on 14th March 2017, sold for USD2,172,500. Provenance: Private estate collection from Toshio Nomura. Toshio Nomura (1930-2014) was a Japanese businessman in Kansai area and a private collector. His maternal grandfather, Hisashi Ueno, began working at the Tianjin Concession Consulate in 1913. During his 27 years in China, he collected a large number of Chinese works of art, with a wide range of interests, particularly in porcelain and metal pieces. WALNUT TREE AUCTION HOUSE provides condition reports as a courtesy to our clients and assumes no liability for any error or omission. Any condition statement is given as a courtesy to a client, and is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Descriptions are our opinions and should in no way be construed as a guarantee of any kind as to age, condition, mater.