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294 A RARE LARGE KINRANDE DISH
LATE MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

The rounded sides rise to a slightly faring
rim, and the interior is decorated in iron-red
and green glaze and gilding with a central
shaped quatrefoil panel enclosing a dragon
chasing a faming pearl amidst clouds,
surrounded by similar smaller panels of fsh
and lingzhi fungus alternating with lozenges.
The exterior is similarly decorated, all
reserved on an iron-red diaper ground below
a petal band around the rim.

18º in. (46.3 cm.) diam.

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE

Christie’s London, 15 November 2000, lot
40.

While ewers, jars, and bowls are well-represented
in this kinrande palette, as illustrated in Sekai Toji
Zenshu, vol. 14, Ming, Tokyo, 1976, nos. 239-42,
large dishes are very rare.
明十七世紀 金欄手龍紋大盤

VARIOUS PROPERTIES

1579

A LARGE BLACK AND TURQUOISE-
ENAMELED PERSIAN AND ARABIC-
INSCRIBED DISH
LATE MING DYNASTY, LATE 16TH-EARLY
17TH CENTURY

The dish has rounded sides and is decorated
on the interior with a central roundel
enclosing a lengthy inscription consisting
of Qur’anic verses in Arabic, four smaller
roundels enclosing and encircled by further
Qur’anic verses, and verses from the diwan
of the 14th century poet Jalal al-din Azud
Yazdi inscribed in Persian below an iron-red
double line border at the rim, all written in
black enamel highlighted by turquoise glaze.
The exterior is plain.

14 in. (35.6 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

$10,000-15,000

A very similar dish, identifed as ‘Swatow’ ware
(35.5 cm. diam.), is illustrated by R. Krahl and
J. Ayers in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi
Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. II, London, 1986,
p. 895, and col. pl. p. 480, no. 1939, where the
inscriptions are identifed as Arabic quoting the
Koran, and the poem is also translated. See, also,
a related dish of comparable size (36.5 cm. diam.)
illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu
Collection, Japan, 1987, p. 881.
晚明十六/十七世紀 松石綠及黑彩波斯文大盤