ZHENGDE FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1506-1521)

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A BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' DISH
ZHENGDE FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1506-1521)
The dish is well-potted with shallow, rounded sides, and is decorated in the center with a five-clawed dragon leaping amidst flower scroll within a double-line border below similar decoration of two racing dragons in the well, which is repeated on the exterior above a band of ruyi heads on the slightly tapered foot ring.
8¼ in. (21 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Christie's New York, 2 December 1993, lot 268.

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Lot Essay

Compare an almost identical Zhengde-marked dish of comparable size (19.9 cm.), illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 11, Yuan and Ming dynasties, Tokyo, 1977, no. 91. Compare a slightly smaller Zhengde-marked dish of the same design in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, Hong Kong, 1987, p. 155, no. 155. A slightly larger Zhengde-marked dish of the same design is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein in A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1975, p. 166, no. 161.

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