Lot 1410
1410
A VERY RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE SMALL DISH
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A VERY RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE SMALL DISH

Details
A VERY RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE SMALL DISH
XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

The small dish is finely potted with low rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, the centre skilfully painted with two Buddhist lions gambolling around a be-ribboned brocade ball amidst various auspicious emblems, the exterior with a further five lions, two gripping brocade balls in their jaws and the others grasping onto the flowing ribbons, all within double-line borders encircling the rims and slightly tapered foot
5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

Only one other dish of this pattern appears to have been published, slightly larger in size to the present lot, in the National Palace Museum, illustrated in the Catalogue of Ming Xuande Porcelain, Taiwan, 1980, pl. 59.

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