A Rare Brown and White-Glazed Saucer Dish

JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

細節

A Rare Brown and White-Glazed Saucer Dish
Jiajing Six-Character Mark in Underglaze Blue within a Double Circle and of the Period
The interior incised with a dragon leaping amidst clouds within a double line border, all under a whitish glaze below the brown-glazed well, the exterior with two further dragons chasing flaming pearls incised beneath the brown glaze
6¼in. (15.9cm.) diam.

展覽

London, Christie's, An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 2 - 14 June 1993, no. 24.

拍品專文

There is no obvious precedent for this very unusual dish, with its high-contrast combination of white-glazed center to a brown-glazed body, but a few other coffee-brown-glazed porcelains of Jiajing date have been published. See the pair of plain dishes from the collection of Clifford C.F. Wong included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition, Monochrome Ceramics of Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1977, no. 92; and a coffee-brown Jiajing dish with dragons painted in olive green included in the Society's Thirtieth Anniversary exhibition, Selected Treasures of Chinese Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1990, no. 146. The decorative device of an incised dragon, either under the glaze or left in the biscuit, had already been used in the preceding Hongzhi and Zhengde reigns and can be seen on a yellow and green-glazed square bowl incised under the glaze with similar leaping dragons included in the exhibition, Ming Porcelains, 29 October 1970 - 31 January 1971, p. 81, no. 53.