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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F. BROWN
1556
A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE DISH
MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY
The dish is decorated in the center with three peonies growing amidst a tall
rock formation and with six further peonies growing on leafy vines around
the cavetto.
13¡ in. (33.9 cm.) diam., cloth box

$20,000-30,000
PROVENANCE:
The Collection of Peter Boone; Sotheby's London, 14 November 1972, lot
371.
J. T. Tai (1910-1992) Collection.
Important Chinese Ceramics sold to benefit the J. T. Tai Collection;
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 21 May 1985, lot 14.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.

A blue and white dish of identical size dated to the Tianshun period
(1457-1464) is in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, and is
published in Gu taoci ziliao xuan cui, vol. 1, Beijing, 2005, p. 147, no. 121.
The Palace Museum dish is decorated in a similar style with a design of
flowers centering a rock formation, with additional flowers on leafy vines
in the cavetto and on the reverse. The fluidity of the painting and softness
of the glaze all herald the subsequent Chenghua period.

明十五世紀 青花牡丹壽石紋大盤
(reverse)