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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F.
BROWN
1568
A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' DISH PROVENANCE:
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE Property of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 303201.
WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573- Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, 6 November 1981, lot 266.
1619) The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.
The dish is decorated in the center with two confronted, five-
clawed dragons writhing amidst flames and clouds in pursuit
of a flaming pearl below two pairs of further dragons chasing
flaming pearls in the well. The exterior is decorated with a band
of lotus scroll.
15¿ in. (38.4 cm.) diam., cloth box
$30,000-50,000
明萬曆 青花雲龍紋大盤 雙圈六字楷書款
(mark)
