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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F. BROWN
1548
A BLUE AND WHITE `DRAGON' DISH
ZHENGDE FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1506-1521) LITERATURE:
The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Exhibition of Ming Blue-and-White,
The dish is decorated in the center with a five-clawed dragon amidst flower Stockholm, 1964, p. 51, no. 46.
scroll within a double-line border below similar decoration of two dragons
in the well, which is repeated on the exterior above a band of ruyi heads on
the slightly tapered foot ring. A similar Zhengde-marked blue and white dish with dragons writhing
amidst lotus scrolls is illustrated by Jessica Harrison-Hall, Catalogue of
8¡ in. (21.2 cm.) diam., cloth box
Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p.
200, no. 8:15. Like the present dish, the British Museum example depicts
$25,000-35,000 dragons in different attitudes. The dragon in the center is shown with
open jaws and bulging eyes. There are also two further dragons in the
PROVENANCE: cavetto and reverse—one shown with jaws shut and the other with jaws
Lindberg Collection. open and contorted neck. Harrison-Hall notes that the pattern of the
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28 November 1978, lot 65. present dish was used on table wares of all shapes made for the Zhengde
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.
court.
EXHIBITED:
Stockholm, The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Exhibition of Ming
Blue-and-White, 1964.

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