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A RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE 'THREE FRIENDS' DISH

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A RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE 'THREE FRIENDS' DISH
YONGLE

The centre of the interior well painted in an ink-blue tone with entangled branches of the 'Three Friends of Winter', pine, prunus and bamboo within a triple-line border, the well with a continuous composite floral-scroll of twelve blooms including peony, camellia, chrysanthemum and lotus, all below a key-pattern band around the rim, the exterior with a similar floral-scroll between a key-pattern band above the foot and a classic-scroll border below the rim
13 1/2 in. (34.4 cm.) diam., box
Provenance
F.G. & E.H. Morrill, no. 101.
Literature
Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Ming Porcelain, p. 31, pl. 5.
Exhibited
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Lot Essay

Previously sold in London, 14 November 1967, lot 97.

Cf. a similar example illustrated by Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 40, no. 29.35 and one sold in London, 8 December 1992, lot 224. A dish of this pattern but with a wave border at the rim from the Hay and Cunliffe Collections was included in the O.C.S. Jubilee Exhibition, The Ceramic Art of China, London, 1971, Catalogue no. 150; another in the Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin is illustrated in the Catalogue, 1970, pl. 64.

(US$80,000-100,000)

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