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Lot Essay
The dish is decorated to the interior with a five-clawed dragon among clouds and flames, the eyes, mouth and scales are incised in the biscuit and covered with a bright emerald-green enamel; to the exterior with two striding green dragons reserved against an incised wave ground.
It is rare to find Zhengde green-enamelled dragon dishes in this small size. Compare to a larger one housed in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Miscellaneous Enamelled Porcelains Plain Tricoloured Porcelains, Shanghai, 2009, no.71; one in the British Museum, illustrated by Jessica Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, no.8:34; and one from the Au Bak Ling Collection, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26 September 2024, lot 6.
It is rare to find Zhengde green-enamelled dragon dishes in this small size. Compare to a larger one housed in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Miscellaneous Enamelled Porcelains Plain Tricoloured Porcelains, Shanghai, 2009, no.71; one in the British Museum, illustrated by Jessica Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, no.8:34; and one from the Au Bak Ling Collection, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26 September 2024, lot 6.