Sale 1877
New York
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19 September 2007
Price realised
USD 1,875
Estimate
AN UNUSUAL MING-STYLE BLUE-GLAZED ANHUA-DECORATED DISH 18TH CENTURY Copying a Xuande prototype, with rounded sides flaring slightly at the rim, the center of the interior carved with three clouds below two slip-decorated striding dragons separated by lingzhi-shaped clouds in the well, covered inside and out with a glaze of rich blue color below the white rim, apocryphal Xuande mark on the base 8 1/8 in. (22.7 cm.) diam.
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