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Gugong ciqi lu [Record of porcelains from the
the dragon plunging, with its tail raised high
Old Palace], Taipei, 1961-6, vol. 2, part 1, p.177, above its head, was sold in these rooms, 4th
one of which was included in the exhibition April 2012, lot 3156 (fig. 2), where companion
Ming Xuande ciqi tezhan mulu/Catalogue of a pieces from other periods are illustrated: an
Special Exhibition of Hsuan-te Period Porcelain, unmarked early Ming dish in the Shanghai
National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1980, cat. Museum, after Lu Minghua, op.cit., pl. 3-38;
no. 57, and again in Mingdai Xuande guanyao another example of Xuande mark and period
jinghua tezhan tulu/Catalogue of the Special in the National Palace Museum, Taipei,
Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial included in the 1998 catalogue, op.cit., cat. no.
Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace 189; a dish of Chenghua mark and period in
Museum, Taipei, 1998, cat. no. 188 (fig. 1). the Sir Percival David Collection in the British
Museum, published in Oriental Ceramics. The
A broken dish of this design has also been
recovered from the waste heaps of the Ming World’s Great Collections, Tokyo, New York,
imperial kilns at Zhushan, Jingdezhen, and is and San Francisco, 1980–82, vol. 6, col. pl. 32;
illustrated in Lu Minghua, Shanghai Bowuguan and a dish of Zhengde mark and period from
cangpin yanjiu daxi/Studies of the Shanghai the collection of Mrs Alfred Clark, illustrated
Museum Collections: A Series of Monographs. in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the
Mingdai guanyao ciqi [Ming imperial porcelain], Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010,
Shanghai, 2007, pl. 3-119. vol. 4, no. 1679, and sold in these rooms, 9th
October 2012, lot 19.
A dish with the more conventional design of
five dragons among scrolling lotus, but with