A WUCAI SQUARE DISH

JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

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A WUCAI SQUARE DISH
Jiajing Six-Character Mark in Underglaze Blue and of the Period
The center painted and enameled with peony issuing from rockwork surrounded by four striding five-clawed dragons within cartouches reserved on a trellis-pattern ground, the reverse with flowers issuing from rockwork and butterflies
10in. (17.8cm.) square

Lot Essay

Compare the similar dish in the British Museum, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1981, vol.5, fig. 195; another in the Umezawa Gallery illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol. I, p. 279, no. 838; and one in Ceramic Art of the World, Shogakukan Series, Tokyo, 1976, vol. 14, pl. 78. See, also, the example sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 29-30 October 1995, lot 712A.