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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F. BROWN
1551
AN IMPORTANT BLUE AND WHITE BARBED 'AUSPICIOUS
FLOWER' DISH WITH THE MARK OF SHAH JAHAN
YONGLE PERIOD (1403-1425)
EXHIBITED:
The central medallion is finely painted with floral scroll including rose, On loan, San Antonio Museum of Art, February 1980-April 1992.
hibiscus, pomegranate, lotus, peony, chrysanthemum, and camellia Dallas, The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, Texas
blossoms, all borne on scrolling interlocking stems. The fluted cavetto Collects Asia, 12 July-28 September 2008, no. 50.
is decorated with twelve floral sprays, and the flattened, barbed rim is
LITERATURE:
decorated with lingzhi scroll. One side of the exterior near the foot is
Amy Lewis Hofland and Shiyuan Yuan, Texas Collects Asia, Dallas, 2008,
inscribed with the collector's mark of the fifth Mughal Emperor, Shah
pp. 166-7, no. 50.
Jahan (r. 1628-1658), incorporating the title Sahib Qiran thani (The Second
Lord of the [Celestial] Conjunction), and the date AH 1046, corresponding
to 1637-38.
14¬ in. (37.8 cm.) diam.
$200,000-300,000
PROVENANCE:
Shah Jahan (r. 1628-1658), fifth emperor of the Mughal Dynasty of
Northern India.
Private collection, Japan, 18 Februrary 1980.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas. (collector’s mark of Shah Jahan)

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