A RARE MING WUCAI SQUARE DISH

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A RARE MING WUCAI SQUARE DISH
JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Enamelled to the centre with tree peonies springing up from behind pierced rockwork below butterflies and bees in flight, surrounded by iron-red and underglaze-blue dragons in the well in shaped panels, reserved on a diaper ground set with florettes at the corner, the reverse with further similar flowers and rockwork and lingzhi on the corners, all between iron-red double-line borders (tiny chips)
7in. (18cm.) square

Lot Essay

Cf. Jiajing dishes of this pattern illustrated in Ceramic Art of the World, Shogakukan Series, vol. 4, pl. 78; for one in the Umezawa Gallery see Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 11, fig. 127; and for one in the British Museum from the Oppenheim Bequest, see Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, 1981, vol. 5, no. 195.

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