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A green-enamelled incised 'dragon' dish Chenghua six-character mark image 1
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Lot 108

A green-enamelled incised 'dragon' dish
Chenghua six-character mark

16 May 2019, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A green-enamelled incised 'dragon' dish

Chenghua six-character mark
Enamelled in the interior within a circle with a writhing five-clawed dragon in pursuit of the 'flaming pearl', the exterior with a further two striding green dragons on an incised ground of crashing waves and flaming pearls.
20.3cm (8in) diam.

Footnotes

綠彩刻雲龍紋盤
青花「大明成化年製」楷書款

Provenance: an English private collection, acquired in the 1920s, and thence by descent

來源: 英國私人收藏,購於二十世紀二十年代,並由後人保存迄今

Compare with a related dish with dragon design in green enamel on a white ground, Chenghua mark and period, in the Percival David Foundation (PDF 707), illustrated by R.Fong, Ming Colours: Polychrome Porcelain from Jingdezhen, London, 2006, pp.94-95, no.38. See also a similar dish with Hongzhi six-character mark and of the period, illustrated by J.Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p.185, no.7:17. Another similar dish, with Hongzhi six-character mark is also illustrated by J.Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, no.67.

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