A Superb Blue and White 'Garden Landscape' Charger, Ming Dynasty, Yongle period (1403-1425)

Finely potted with rounded sides rising from a short tapered foot to a wide everted rim, superbly painted in rich inky tone of cobalt-blue accented with characteristic 'heaping and piling', the interior decorated with a typical Chinese Garden scene, surrounded on the cavetto with variety of flowering straws, all within a border of blue ripple under glazed on the rim, the exterior decorated with lotus lappets, the foot ring is unglazed, the base has 4 character mark: 22 cm, (8.6 in.) Diameter