Description: Of wide flaring sides, the interior finely carved through the pale russet-brown slip?with a lotus?spray on an ivory white ground, the cavetto decorated with florets, the reverse applied with ivory-white glaze,covered allover with a transparent glaze, the rim left unglazed revealing the white?stoneware body, 7.5 inch diameter. Provenance: From the estate of Diana Engstrom, Sweden, by decent to family memberin California