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A RARE SET OF FIVE YELLOW-GROUND GREEN-ENAMELLED
'LOTUS' SAUCER DISHES
JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER INCISED MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD
(1522-1566)
Each dish is delicately potted with rounded sides supported on a short tapered
foot, the interior incised and decorated in green enamel with fve lotus blooms
with auspicious emblems. The exterior is similarly decorated with lotus
blooms. The yellow base is incised with a six-character mark in green enamel.
3Ω in. (9 cm.) diam. (5)
£20,000-30,000 US$25,000-37,000
€23,000-34,000
Compare the present lot to a slightly larger Jiajing mark and period dish
(12 cm. diam.) in the British Museum, published by Margaret Medley
in Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares in the Percival David
Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1978, p. 25, no. 56. Also see another
saucer dish of similar size and bearing the same incised Jiajing mark
decorated in green from the Collection of Roger Pilkington (1928-69), sold at
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 6 April 2016.

明嘉靖 黃地綠彩蓮紋碟一組五件 六字楷書刻款 (marks)

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