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A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE ’POMEGRANATE’ DISH
MARK AND PERIOD OF XUANDE

明宣德 青花石榴花盤

《大明宣德年製》款

well potted with low rounded sides rising from a tapered foot 來源：
to a flared rim, boldly painted to the interior in rich 倫敦蘇富比1979年12月11日，編號288
cobalt-blue tones with the ‘heaped and piled’ effect, depicting
in the central interior a medallion enclosing a large flowering
pomegranate spray with two open blooms and three
attendant buds on a gnarled leafy stem, encircled on the
cavetto by detached fruiting branches of peach, lychee, crab
apple and persimmon, the exterior painted with four formal
lotus sprays, all divided by double-line borders, inscribed on
one side just under the rim with a horizontal six-character
reign mark, covered overall in a translucent glaze save for the
base revealing the buff-coloured body with characteristic iron
spots
29.5 cm, 11⅝ in.

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s London, 11th December 1979, lot 288.

HK$ 3,000,000-4,000,000
US$ 383,000-510,000

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