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Lot Essay
It is more usual to find this decoration of incised and green-glazed dragons on dishes with Zhengde marks, rather than bowls. These type of ware with dragons painted in green enamel or left in the biscuit are perhaps the most well-known imperial Jingdezhen wares created during the Zhengde era. Potters would decorate these wares by incising the designs into the body before firing and cover them with a wax resist. The piece would then be glazed and fired. The green enamel would be painted on later over the unglazed biscuit and re-fired at a low temperature.
A number of bowls of this design, date, and similar large size have been published. See the example from the H.R.H. Palmer Collection illustrated by S. Jenyns, Ming Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1953, p. 103, pl. 79B; the bowl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989 rev. ed., p. 162, no. 156; another from The Art Institute of Chicago, included in the exhibition, Ming Porcelains, A Retrospective, China House Gallery, China Institute in America, 1970-1971, no. 67; and one from the collection of H.R.N. Norton, included in the exhibition, Mostra d'Arte Cinese/Exhibition of Chinese Art, Venice, 1954, no. 687.
A number of bowls of this design, date, and similar large size have been published. See the example from the H.R.H. Palmer Collection illustrated by S. Jenyns, Ming Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1953, p. 103, pl. 79B; the bowl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989 rev. ed., p. 162, no. 156; another from The Art Institute of Chicago, included in the exhibition, Ming Porcelains, A Retrospective, China House Gallery, China Institute in America, 1970-1971, no. 67; and one from the collection of H.R.N. Norton, included in the exhibition, Mostra d'Arte Cinese/Exhibition of Chinese Art, Venice, 1954, no. 687.