JIAJING/WANLI PERIOD (1522-1619)

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AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE DISH
JIAJING/WANLI PERIOD (1522-1619)
Painted in inky tones of underglaze blue in the interior with an elephant and lion confronted on either side of the trunk of a tall tree, below striding dragons interspersed with Daoist trigrams in the cavetto, the reverse with six floral roundels separated by small clouds, the base with four-character mark in a square reading fu gui jia qi (beautiful vessel for the rich and honorable)
13¾ in. (35 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Dragon House, San Francisco.

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Lot Essay

A blue and white dish of the same size with closely related decoration is in the Ardebil Shrine, illustrated by J. Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington, 1956, pl. 91, where it is dated to the late 16th century. A larger (42.5 cm.) blue and white dish, also with similar decoration, was sold Sotheby's, London, 13 May 2009, lot 182.

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