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A RARE LARGE IRON-RED ENAMELLED ‘DRAGON’ BOWL rivets, but with the five claws intact, in the Palace Museum, Beijing,
Jiajing six-character mark and of the period illustrated in Geng Baochang, ed., Gugong Bowuyuan cang gu taoci
Boldly enamelled to the exterior with two ferocious dragons striding ciliao xuancui [Selection of ancient ceramic material from the Palace
amongst clouds and chasing flaming pearls, the fifth claw of each leg Museum], Beijing, 2005, vol. 1, pl. 156, where it is mentioned, p. 182,
effaced, the bowl with an everted mouth rim and raised on a slightly that this overglaze-red design is very rarely seen in the Jiajing period;
tapering foot rim. 37cm (14 1/2in) diam. another bowl of this design in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo,
was included in the exhibition Kasei Manreki no akae ten/Imperial
£2,000 - 3,000 Overglaze-Enamelled Wares in the Late Ming Dynasty, Museum of
CNY17,000 - 26,000 HK$20,000 - 29,000 Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1995, cat. no. 4.
Compare with a similar bowl, Jiajing six-character mark and of the
period, also with the fifth claws all effaced, in the Meiyintang collection,
eventually sold at Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 8 April 2013, lot 31.

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