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contemporary blue and white porcelain. The rendering of the dragon’s coiled body, and the use of the cavetto and rim for framing
the central design on this dish evidence this trend.

Dishes of this size and form and incised with dragons are unusual, although a closely related example from the Xinyangtang
Collection, was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 29th-30th November 2018, lot 601. See also three reconstructed saucer-shaped
dishes carved with this motif, recovered from the Fengdongyuan kiln, Dayao, Longquan, included in the exhibition Longquan Ware:
Chinese Celadon Beloved of the Japanese, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Nagoya, 2012, cat. nos 139-141; and another from
the Sir Percival David Collection, now in the British Museum, London, included in Margaret Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of
Celadon Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1997, no. 259.

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