A VERY RARE LATE MING YELLOW-GROUND GREEN AND AUBERGINE 'DRAGON' SAUCER

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A VERY RARE LATE MING YELLOW-GROUND GREEN AND AUBERGINE 'DRAGON' SAUCER
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

Of small size, the interior medallion enamelled with a green ascending dragon and an aubergine descending dragon contesting a 'flaming pearl' within a double circle border, the cavetto with floral sprays interspersed with fruiting sprigs, the reverse with three detached floral sprays, all against a mustard-yellow ground including the base bearing the enamelled reign mark (fine rim hairline)
3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A similar 'biscuit'-enamelled Wanli-marked saucer of slightly larger size (10.8 cm.) from the Edward T. Chow Collection, was sold in Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 439. A larger example of this pattern (20.7 cm. diam.), with exception of lingzhi-sprays on the cavetto, in the Baur Collection is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in The Baur Collection, vol. 1, Geneva, 1999, no. 104 (A205).

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