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PROPERTY FROM A WEST COAST PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE DISH
JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE
WITHIN A RECTANGLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)
The heavily potted dish has rounded sides rising from a tapering foot, and is A Jiajing dish of the same pattern and comparable size ( 19Ω in. diam.) was
decorated in the interior in bright blue tones of underglaze blue with a large sold at Christie’s London, 17 June 2003, lot 6731. Another similar example is
medallion enclosing leafy meander bearing cockscomb fowers, below sprays illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London,
of pomegranate, peony, chrysanthemum and peach in the cavetto, and the 2001, p. 227, fg. 9:27, where the author notes that foral decoration was
exterior is decorated with three repeated groups of the ‘Three Friends of relatively rare in the sixteenth century and also that while the style of the
Winter’, pine, prunus and bamboo, and the reign mark written in a line within a painting follows early Ming design, there is no exact model from which this
rectangle at the rim. would have been copied, although the nianhao under the rim follows the
Xuande precedent. Compare, also, the dish illustrated by R. Krahl and J. Ayers,
20 in. (51 cm.) diam.
Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. II, p. 631, no. 926.
$25,000-35,000 明嘉靖 青花大盤 單行六字楷書款
PROVENANCE
Nathan Bentz Asian Arts, San Francisco, 1962.
John Yeon (1910-1994) Collection, Portland, Oregon.

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