A provincial Ming Longquan celadon large shallow dish circular with broad everted rim, simple parentheses cut rim, carved decoration including a lotus to the centre. Old cracks, crazing and repaired chip to rim, diameter 36.5 cm. Provenance: Izak van Engers (1848-1914) a Dutch East Indies Tagrijn (metal trader); to his daughter Bertha (b.1896 Surabaya (now Djakarta), d.1970), to her niece, to her son, our vendor