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DRAGONS FROM THE EMPIRE - IMPERIAL CERAMICS FROM THE YIDETANG COLLECTION
龍行皇天 - 藝德堂珍藏御製陶瓷
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A RARE RESERVE-DECORATED BLUE AND 明嘉靖 霽青地留白雲龍瑞獸海水紋盤 六字楷書款
WHITE ‘DRAGON’ DISH 來源

JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE 香港蘇富比，2001 年 10 月 29 日，拍品 540 號
PERIOD (1522-1566) This unusual type of reverse decoration is a very distinctive technique
The centre of the interior is decorated with a scaly five-clawed of the Jiajing period. A dish of this design is in The Avery Brundage
dragon leaping amid ruyi-clouds and flames above waves crashing Collection at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated in
against rocks, within a double-circle repeated at rim. The exterior Chinese Ceramics, London, 1996, no. 429.
is decorated with ten mythical animals gambolling amidst clouds 此盤霽青色調泛紫，釉光亮麗，為嘉靖官窯中的佳作。紋飾相同的例子
and waves. All reserved on a brilliant purplish-blue ground. The
base is covered with a blue wash over the underglaze-blue mark. 可參考 Avery Brundage 珍藏中一件，現藏舊金山亞洲藝術博物館，見
8À/”ÿ in. (22.3 cm.) diam., box 《Chinese Ceramics》，倫敦，1996 年，圖版 429。

PROVENANCE
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 29 October 2001, lot 540
HK$300,000-500,000 US$39,000-65,000

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