A FINE AND RARE MING DOUCAI DISH

MING DOUCAI PROPERTY FROM A FAR EASTERN COLLECTION

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A FINE AND RARE MING DOUCAI DISH
JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD

The shallow flared sides with sharply-angled base supported on a narrow ring foot, the exterior decorated with a frieze of detached lingzhi sprays in underglaze-blue, iron-red and yellow with underglaze-blue outlines, beneath a double line encircling the rim, the flat centre on the interior decorated with a medallion of interlaced ruyi-heads and petals in the same colours with the addition of pale green, enclosing a yellow circle, within a yellow ring border with underglaze-blue outlines, the characteristic waxy glaze burnt orange in a thin line where it meets the unglazed footrim--5¾in. (14.6cm.) diam., box

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Cf. a very similar dish, also bearing a Jiajing six-character mark within a double square and with double lines at the well, included in The Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, pl. 43.

For earlier Chenghua-marked dishes with this rare doucai pattern see an example also in Taipei, illustrated loc. cit, pl. 60; another in the Percival David Foundation included by Brankston, Early Ming Wares of Chingtechen, pl. 28 c, also included in the Oriental Ceramic Society, London, Special Exhibition, The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, 1958, Catalogue, no. 176; and one illustrated in the Min Chiu Society, Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, 1990, Catalogue, no. 143

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