A large blue and white bowl late Ming Dynasty, with deeply rounded sides painted on the exterior with a continuous lakeside scene of pagodas and pavilions beside willow and other trees on the rocky shores, all above a band of upright lappets and a scroll border around the base, the interior with a central landscape medallion encircled with a similar landscape frieze around the rim, 35 cm diameter. Provenance: The Peter Elliott collection, Mossgreen, Sydney, 1 September 2015, lot 577. Private collection, Melbourne.