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It is very rare to find such large Jiajing-marked dishes painted with 此盤尺寸碩大，盤心以青花繪雙龍戲珠紋，外壁繪九龍戲珠紋，外口沿
a pair of dragons on the interior and nine dragons on the exterior. 下書「大明嘉靖年製」雙長方款。傳世品中雖有近似的嘉靖款大盤，卻
Compare a smaller dish (49.2 cm. diam.) painted with a similar design,
but in a slightly different arrangement from the collection of Dr Ip Yee, 未見其他相同尺寸及紋飾者。葉義醫生舊藏一件較小（49.2 公分），內
sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 19 November 1984, lot 185; a smaller dish 外紋飾近似但佈局不盡相同的嘉靖款大盤，於 1984 年 11 月 19 日香港
(50 cm. diam.) painted with a single dragon on the interior, and a pair 蘇富比拍賣，拍品 185 號。另參考托普卡比宮藏一件較小（50 公分），
of dragons on the exterior in the Topkapi Saray Museum, illustrated by 盤心繪單隻龍紋，外壁繪雙龍紋的嘉靖款大盤，見《Chinese Ceramics in
J. Ayers and R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum,
Vol.II, no.923; and a dish of similar size (57.5 cm. diam.) painted with the Topkapi Saray Museum》，第二冊，圖版 923；及北京故宮博物院藏
cranes in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete 一件尺寸相仿（57.5 公分），內外飾以仙鶴的例子，見故宮博物院藏文
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain 物珍品全集《青花釉裏紅（中）》，香港，2000 年，圖版 121 號。
with Underglazed Red (II), Hong Kong, 2000, p. 131, no. 121.

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