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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F. BROWN
1567
A RARE LARGE WUCAI 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' DISH LITERATURE:
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE Amy Lewis Hofland and Shiyuan Yuan, Texas Collects Asia, Dallas, 2008,
WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619) p. 169, no. 52.
The dish is decorated in the center with a dragon and phoenix reserved
An almost identical Wanli dish of comparable size in the Palace Museum,
on a ground of leafy floral scroll. The cavetto is similarly decorated with
Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
two pairs of dragons and phoenixes and the reverse is decorated with a
Museum - 38 - Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong
broad band of floral scroll.
Kong, 1999, no. 50. Another nearly identical Wanli dish is illustrated
15º in. (38.7 cm.) diam., cloth box in Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics,
Tokyo, 1965, p. 130, no. 536. A smaller (9¡ in. diam.) Wanli wucai 'dragon
$30,000-50,000 and phoenix’ dish from the Art Institute of Chicago was sold at Christie’s
New York, 12 September, 2019 lot 709.
PROVENANCE:
Eskenazi Ltd., London, January 1986, no. 9526.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.
EXHIBITED:
Dallas, The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, Texas
Collects Asia, 12 July-28 September 2008, no. 52.

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