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# Blue and White Plate with a Qilin, Ming Dynasty

Blue and white porcelain plate painted with a qilin among bamboo, rocks and flowering plants, within a peony scroll, attributed to the Ming dynasty.

**Period:** [Ming Dynasty](https://realrareantiques.com/ming-dynasty/)
**Category:** [Ming Dynasty Porcelain](https://realrareantiques.com/product-category/antique-chinese-porcelain/ming-dynasty-porcelain/)
**Dimensions:** Diameter 36.5 cm · Height 6 cm
**Reference:** RRA-0107
**Availability:** Available

## Description

A large [blue and white](https://realrareantiques.com/chinese-blue-and-white-porcelain/) porcelain plate with rounded sides and a narrow rim. In the centre, within a double ring, a qilin with a scaled body, flame-like mane and horns leaps through a garden of bamboo, rockwork, broad leaves and flowering plants. The cavetto carries a scroll of peonies, the blooms shown alternately full face and in profile among leafy stems, and the rim a narrow band of flower and berry scroll. The blue is deep and inky, darker where the brush pooled.

The outside has a band of panels divided by groups of lines, each enclosing a stylised flame-like motif, with small rings between. The base is unglazed and flecked with iron-brown, and there is no mark. A piece of the side broke away and has been glued back, and the plate is sold as it is.

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