JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)

Details

A PAIR OF YELLOW AND GREEN ENAMELLED 'CRANE' DISHES
JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)
Each dish is potted with rounded sides flaring to an everted rim, the interior incised with a medallion of a trigram encircled by six cranes in flight amidst clouds within a line border. The crane and cloud motif are repeated as a frieze on the exterior, all highlighted in green against an egg yolk-yellow ground.
7 1/8 in. (18.3 cm.) diam., box (2)

Provenance

Bluett & Sons, London.
Ralph M. Chait, New York, December 1964
Evelyn Annenberg Hall Collection
Sold at Christie's New York, 29 March 2006, lot 92

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Lot Essay

A Jiajing-marked dish of this design and size was included in the National Palace Museum exhibition, Good Fortune, Long Life, Health, and Peace: A Special Exhibition of Porcelains with Auspicious Designs, Taipei, 1995, p. 139, no. 62.

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