Rare blue and white cup with barbed rim cup stand possibly Ming period, the cup exterior decorated in 'Heaping and Piling' style with lotus floral scrolls with floral roundel to interior, cup stand finely potted with shallow lobed sides rising to a barbed everted rim divided into eight bracket foliations with central lotus scroll ring, the underside crisply moulded with radiating petal lappets, the base unglazed, 8.5 cm diameter x 4.8 cm high (cup) 20 cm diam (plate)