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A RARE AND LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 來源： See a similar blue and white dish with qilin,
'QILIN' DISH John Pullan 博士 (1915-1995) Shunzhi, in the Palace Museum, Beijing
Shunzhi 倫敦古董商 Spink，1998年 illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan Cang
With deep rounded sides rising from a Qingdai Ciqi Leixuan Qing Shunzhi Kangxi
channelled foot ring, vividly painted in 展覽著錄： Chao Qinghuaci, vol.I, Beijing, 2004, pl.20.
underglaze blue with an open-mouthed Spink & Son Ltd.，《Chinese Blue White Compare also with a similar blue and white
roaring scaly qilin prancing across a Porcelain From the Pullan Collection》， dish with a qilin, Shunzhi, from the Butler
landscape of plantain and rockwork issuing 倫敦，1998年11月，圖版37 Family collection, illustrated in Shunzhi
foliage, the reverse decorated with flaming Porcelain: Treasures from an Unknown Reign,
pearl and precious objects, the rim enamelled Dr John Pullan was born in Yorkshire and Seattle and London, 2002, pp.108-109,
brown, the base recessed. educated at Shrewsbury and Cambridge no.13. A further example in the Ashmolean
34.5cm (13 5/8in) diam. before entering the Medical School at St Museum, Oxford, is illustrated in Eastern
Thomas' Hospital in 1937. His collection Ceramics and Other Works of Art from the
£8,000 - 12,000 of Chinese ceramics comprised over three Collection of Gerald Reitlinger, Oxford, 1981,
CNY65,000 - 97,000 hundred pieces, with the majority being blue p.49, no.98.
and white, acquired mostly from the main
清順治 青花「麒麟」大盤 dealers in London in the 1950s-1970s. See also a fine and large blue and white qilin
dish, Shunzhi, which was sold at Sotheby's
Provenance: The auspicious qilin was particularly popular New York, 19 March 2019, lot 312.
Dr John Pullan (1915-1995) during the Shunzhi reign. Eva Strober noted
Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1998 the reason may be because the mythical
beast was considered to only appear when
Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: foreshadowing the birth of a great sage. See,
Spink and Son Ltd., Chinese Blue White E.Strober, Symbols on Chinese Porcelain:
Porcelain From the Pullan Collection, London, 10,000 Times Happiness, Stuttgart, 2011,
November 1998, pl.37 p.66.

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