A Small Blue and White Saucer Dish

JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)

Details

A Small Blue and White Saucer Dish
Jiajing six-character mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1522-1566)
The interior painted with a medallion of four boys playing in a garden, three shown seated on the ground with various vessels, while the fourth stands holding a cup, the exterior of the rounded sides painted with pairs of boys separated by pine trees, rocks and banana plants in a continuous landscape, all within double-line borders
6 3/16in. (15.6cm.) diam., box and stand
Falk Collection no. 255.

Provenance

Mathias Komor, New York, December 1951.

Exhibited

The Art of China's Children, New York, China House Gallery, China Institute in America, 1991.

Lot Essay

A very similar dish in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art was included in the exhibition, Ming Porcelains, A Retrospective, China House Gallery, China Institute in America, 1970, no. 43, p. 71; and another from the Holger Lauritzen Collection in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm is illustrated by Jan Wirgin, "Ming Wares in the Lauritzen Collection," B.M.F.E.A., 1965, No. 37, p. 210, no. 22 and pl. 13.

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