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AN IRON-RED-DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ DISH

WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND
OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

The dish has shallow, slightly rounded sides, and is decorated on the interior with an
iron-red, fve-clawed dragon chasing a faming pearl as it leaps amidst crashing waves.
The exterior is decorated with a band of eight dragons above crashing waves.
6Ω in. (16.7 cm.) diam.
$15,000-25,000

PROVENANCE

Mary Clark Thompson (1835-1923) Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1923.

LITERATURE

S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989 ed., p. 188, no. 184.
Compare the similarly decorated Wanli-marked dish of smaller size (14.5 cm.), from
the Pilkington Collection, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 6 April 2016, lot 43.
明萬曆 青花礬紅九龍閙海紋盤 雙圈六字楷書款
來源
Mary Clark Thompson（1835-1923）珍藏。
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1923年。

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