A FINE BLUE AND WHITE SHONZUI-STYLE BARBED DISH

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A FINE BLUE AND WHITE SHONZUI-STYLE BARBED DISH
CHENGHUA MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE, CHONGZHEN
The interior well painted in the center with a rabbit reserved in white against a ground of four different diaper patterns, surrounded by decorative roundels in the petal-molded well below the brown-dressed, barbed rim, the exterior encircled by chrysanthemum meander--9 3/8in. (23.8cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Other examples of dishes of this pattern and form are in the Idemitsu Museum of Art, included in the 15th Anniversary Catalogue, 1981, no. 929; and in the Baur Collection, illustrated by Ayers, Catalogue no. A228, where the author mentions another example in the Musee Guimet, Paris