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PROPERTY FROM A NEW ENGLAND COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM A NEW ENGLAND COLLECTION

TWO BLUE AND WHITE ‘SCHOLAR’ DISHES A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ BOWL
LATE MING / EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH WANLI MARK AND PERIOD
CENTURY
the rounded sides rising to an everted rim, painted to the
each with shallow, rounded sides, painted with a central center with a striding frontal dragon in pursuit of a ‘ aming
medallion enclosing a sage in a landscape with an overhanging pearl’, below a band of ying phoenix divided by stylized
pine tree and rocks in the foreground, a diaper pattern clouds, the exterior with an undulating leafy peony scroll, the
encircling the rim, the undersides with birds perched on base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue
fruiting peach branches, the base with an apocryphal Zhengde Diameter 3⅝ in., 9.2 cm
mark (2)
Diameter 5 in., 12.7 cm PROVENANCE

PROVENANCE Collection of Pauline B. (1910-2000) and Myron S. (1906-1992)
Falk Jr., New York.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 16th May 1977, lot 78. Christie’s New York, 21st September 2001, lot 488.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 24th November 1981, lot 109.
$ 2,000-3,000
$ 2,500-3,500

Pauline B 1910 2000 Myron S 1906 1992 Falk Jr

1977 5 16 78 2001 9 21 488
1981 11 24 109

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