Lot Essay
Compare the similarly decorated brown-ground dish in the Jacques Graeffe Collection, illustrated by D. Lion-Goldsmith, Ming Porcelain, New York, 1978, p. 262, pl. 282.
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MING DYNASTY, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
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A Large Swatow Slip-Decorated Brown-Glazed Dish
Ming dynasty, second half 16th century
The center of the interior decorated with a Buddhistic lion in a landscape below two dragons pursuing flaming pearls amidst clouds in the well and chrysanthemum and grass sprays on the everted rim, all in white slip rapidly painted in fluid lines on an amber-brown ground which continues onto the exterior and base which is characteristically encrusted with coarse grit from the firing
15 15/16in. (40.5cm.) diam.
Falk Collection no. 274.
Ming dynasty, second half 16th century
The center of the interior decorated with a Buddhistic lion in a landscape below two dragons pursuing flaming pearls amidst clouds in the well and chrysanthemum and grass sprays on the everted rim, all in white slip rapidly painted in fluid lines on an amber-brown ground which continues onto the exterior and base which is characteristically encrusted with coarse grit from the firing
15 15/16in. (40.5cm.) diam.
Falk Collection no. 274.