Lot 1297
1297
A RARE PAIR OF SMALL YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE LOBED DISHES
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A RARE PAIR OF SMALL YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE LOBED DISHES

JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)

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A RARE PAIR OF SMALL YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE LOBED DISHES
JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)
Each of the foliate-rimmed dishes is painted on the interior in deep tones of underglaze blue on an egg yolk-yellow ground with a reserved dragon leaping amidst flame scrolls surrounded by pairs of leafy fruit-laden peach branches growing from rockwork. The design is repeated on the exterior with the addition of pairs of birds separating the branches.
4½ in. (11.4 cm.) wide, cloth box (2)
Provenance
J.M. Hu Collection.

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Lot Essay

Compare the Jiajing-marked dish of identical size and design offered at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 27 November 1993, lot 60. Similar underglaze-blue dragons set against a yellow ground can also be seen on a Jiajing-marked jue-form wine cup illustrated J. Harrison-Hall in Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 253, fig. 9:86.

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