A blue and white 'Peacock' dish, Ming Dynasty 16th century, spriitedly painted on the interior with a peacock perched beside rockwork and flowering plants, within a band of floral scrolls around the cavetto repeated on the underside 33.5 cm. Literature: Compare a related dish in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, a complete catalogue ll, Yuan and Ming Dynasty Porcelains, London, 1968, p.