ZHENGDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1506-1521)

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ DISH
ZHENGDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1506-1521)
The dish is potted with rounded sides and flared rim supported on a short foot, painted in varying deep blue tones with three clouds in the central medallion and a classic-scroll at the rim, the exterior is decorated with two five-clawed dragons in pursuit of flaming pearls among clouds.
7 in. (17.5 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Marchant, London, 12 June 1988

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Lot Essay

The inspiration of this design is based on the rare 14th century prototypes, see a similarly decorated Hongwu period blue and white dish from the Palace Museum collection, Beijing, illustrated by Geng Baochang in Mingqing ciqi jianding, Hong Kong, 1993, col. pl. 3.

Compare to a similar Zhengde-marked dish in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum: Blue-and-White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, volume IV, Hong Kong, 1963, no. 11; and one formerly in the J.M. Hu Family collection, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 April 2011, lot 3200.

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