AN EXTREMELY RARE BLUE AND YELLOW DISH

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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AN EXTREMELY RARE BLUE AND YELLOW DISH
ENCIRCLED JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The shallow rounded sides rising to an everted rim, the interior roundel painted with a gardenia spray, the well with four detached fruit and floral sprays including lotus, pomegranate, grapes and crab-apple, the exterior with a continuous rose scroll, all painted in inky-blue tones with simulated 'heaping and piling', reserved on a rich yellow ground (repaired)
10 1/2 in. (26.6 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Dishes of this design bearing Jiajing marks are extremely rare. Compare with a similarly-decorated dish previously from the Reach Collection, illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Vol. 2, pl. 684; another in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, is illustrated by Liu Liang-yu, Ming Official Wares, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, Vol. 4, p. 207.

For a Hongzhi version of a similar design, see the one from the Jingguantang Collection, 3 November 1997, lot 874.

(US$24,000-28,000)

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