Length: 40.4 cm, Width: 40.4 cm, Height: 6.2cm

Chinese Ming Dynasty XuanDe Blue and White Lychee Porcelain Porcelain Plate. The dish plate has a broad wide central interior, rounded mouth lip, thick large, raised on correspondence footed ring base. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in white base colour which contrast against blue colour, depicted of abundant lychee tree with foliage. Legend has it that emperor Tang Minghuang of the Tang Dynasty was in love with Yang Guifei, one of the most beautiful women in Chinese history. She was the emperor’s favourite concubine and Tang would do anything to please his ladylove. Yang’s favourite fruit was lychee. Lychee thus became a symbol of the emperor’s love for Yang. Lychee fruits, till date, are held in high regard in China. In fact, many varieties of lychees are named after wealthy and influential Chinese families. The Upper-base bears a reign mark, a six under glazed blue script characters reign mark. Made in The Years XuanDe Reign Period of The Great Ming Dynasty.

In EXCELLENT condition over all.
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