An Unusual Small Reverse-Decorated Blue and White Dish

JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

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An Unusual Small Reverse-Decorated Blue and White Dish
Jiajing Six-Character Mark and of the Period
The interior with a medallion of three deer in a landscape, with four scenes of pairs of deer flanked by pine trees on the exterior below the everted rim, all reverse-decorated in white on an inky blue ground repeated on the base to cover the nianhao
5in. (14cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A similar dish from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, was included in the exhibition, Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch'ien Lung, Los Angeles County Museum, 14 March - 27 April 1952, no. 302.

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