A RARE LATE MING WUCAI 'DRAGON' DISH

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A RARE LATE MING WUCAI 'DRAGON' DISH
LONGQING SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1567-1572)

The shallow dish is painted in the centre with a sinuous descending iron-red dragon and an ascending underglaze-blue dragon encircling a 'flaming pearl', amid clouds and flames enamelled in green and yellow, all within a double iron-red border repeated around the rim, the exterior with four striding dragons in blue, iron-red, yellow and green (restored)
13 in. (33.1 cm.) diam.

来源

Manno Art Museum, no. 438.

出版

Selected Masterpieces of the Manno Collection, Japan, 1988, pl. 120.

拍品专文

Compare with other Longqing-marked dishes of this size and design, one in the British Museum, illustrated by J. Rawson, Chinese Ornament, The Lotus and Dragon, London, 1990, pl. 5; one in the Percival David Foundation, included in the exhibition Ceramic Evolution in the Middle Ming Period, 1994, and illustrated by R. Kerr and R. Scott in the Catalogue, no. 20; one in the Chang Foundation, illustrated in Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taiwan, 1990, pl. 103; one in the Idemitsu Museum of Art, illustrated in Imperial Overglaze-Enamelled Wares in the Late Ming Dynasty, Tokyo, 1995, pl. 16; and another sold in these Rooms, 26 April 1999, lot 548.