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ANOTHER PROPERTY A nearly identical qingbai dish, decorated with the same motif, in the Avery
Brundage Collection, is illustrated by Stacey Pierson (ed.) in Qingbai Ware:
1542 Chinese Porcelain of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, London, 2002, pp. 84-5,
no. 35. Pierson notes that qingbai ceramics depicting Daoist motifs are
AN UNUSUAL QINGBAI CARVED BRACKET-LOBED DISH among the earliest examples of Daoist iconography in Chinese ceramics,
SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY which became popularized in the Yuan and Ming dynasties. Another similar
qingbai dish, also decorated with crane, cloud and tortoise, is illustrated by
The interior is carved in the center with a lotus stem surrounded by Wang Qingzheng, R. Scott and J. Chen, Serene Pleasure: The Jinglexuan
an immortal holding a scepter, a crane, and a tortoise, alternating Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Seattle Art Museum, 2001, p. 36, no. 9.
with stylized clouds, below a foliate scroll border interrupted by the
immortal’s halo just below the everted, bracket-lobed rim. The dish 南宋/元 青白釉仙人圖花瓣式盤
is covered inside and out with a pale aqua-blue glaze pooling to a
slightly darker tone on the slightly tapered ring foot, and the base is
left unglazed, revealing the white body.
7¬ in. (19.5 cm.) diam., box
$12,000-18,000
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