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A DOUCAI ‘RUYI’ DISH A RARE LARGE WUCAI DISH WITH LANTERNS

JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A AND OFFICIALS
DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A
The dish is decorated to the interior with a band of interlinking
ruyi heads. The reverse is painted with seven lingzhi-shaped motifs DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
in alternating colours.
5 æ in. (14.6 cm.) diam. The dish depicts a scene of the Lantern Festival, and is painted on
the interior with a hanging banner at the centre surrounded by
HK$200,000-300,000 US$26,000-39,000 three lanterns and two attendants. The well with a band of lotus
flowers and scrolling foliage. The underside is further decorated
明嘉靖 鬥彩如意雲頭紋盤 雙方框六字楷書款 with ribbon-tied ruyi, coin, ingot and lozenge, alternating with
lanterns.
11 æ in. (29.8 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

HK$400,000-600,000 US$52,000-78,000

Compare to a similar dish in the collection of the Palace Museum,
Beijing, illustrated in Gugong bowuyuan wenwu zhenpin daxi: wucai,
doucai, Hong Kong, 1999, p.52, pl.48. See also another dish of this
pattern illustrated in Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl
Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 850.

Compare to a further Wanli-marked wucai dish of similar size but with a
dragon design, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 7 October 2015, lot 3667.

3189 (mark) 3190 (mark) 明萬曆 青花五彩五穀豐登圖盤 雙圈六字楷書款

比較北京故宮博物院之藏品，見《故宮博物院文物珍品大系：五彩‧
鬥彩》，香港，1999年，頁52，圖版48號；及另一只同類盤子，見Bo
Gyllensvärd，《Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection》，斯德哥
爾摩，1964年，圖版850號。另可比較一尺寸相若的萬曆五彩龍紋盤，於
香港蘇富比拍賣，2015年10月7日，拍品3667號。

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