Lot Essay
A similar dish was included in the Exhibition by Marchant & Sons, Seventeenth-Century Blue and White and Copper-red and Their Predecessors, 1997, p. 39, no. 33.
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CHONGZHEN
Details
Two late Ming blue and white plates
Chongzhen
Painted to the interior with flowering camellia, one with a bird in flight, the other with two ducks, the petal-shaped rims encircled by a band of scrolling lingzhi interspesed with four hares, the underside with four lingzhi sprays, rim frittings
20.8 cm. and 21 cm. diam. (2)
Chongzhen
Painted to the interior with flowering camellia, one with a bird in flight, the other with two ducks, the petal-shaped rims encircled by a band of scrolling lingzhi interspesed with four hares, the underside with four lingzhi sprays, rim frittings
20.8 cm. and 21 cm. diam. (2)
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