A RARE MING BLUE-GROUND DISH

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A RARE MING BLUE-GROUND DISH
JAIJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)

The deep dish with rounded sides, slightly recessed in the centre, boldly decorated on the medallion with five cranes in flight amidst four leafy fruiting peach sprigs and four lingzhi-sprays issuing from rockwork, above a quatrefoil cartouche enclosing a shou character, all reserved on an inky-violet-blue ground leaving a double-line border in white, further repeated at the rim, the exterior similarly decorated with fruiting peach sprigs flanked by pairs of flying cranes divided by lingzhi (tiny glaze flake to rim)
13 in. (33 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 31 October 1995, lot 377.

Compare two similar examples with this striking design reserved on a rich blue-ground, the first is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, vol. II, no. 706; and a dish formerly from the Avery Brundage Collection now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, A New Comprehensive Survey, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1996, no. 421, p. 244.

A smaller related reverse-decorated dish with a fruiting peach tree in the form of the shou character from the Percival David Foundation, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha series, vol. 6, no. 81.

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