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十 13. Imperial dish, pan, with upright rim carved in the centre with a green five-clawed dragon amongst ruyi-head clouds and
三 flames within a single ring, with a further ring beneath the rim, the underside with two similar dragons on an anhua

wave and mountain peak ground.
御 22.5cm diameter.
製 The base with six-character mark of Zhengde within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1506-1521.
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彩 • Formerly in an English private collection.
龍 • Two similar dishes, in The British Museum, nos. 8:33 and 8:34, given by Sir A. W. Franks, collection no. OA F.389,
紋 and a third dish 8:35, bequeathed by Harry Oppenheim, OA 1947.7/12.243, are illustrated by Jessica Harrison-Hall
盤 in Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, pp. 208/9; two further dishes, in The Percival David Foundation of Chinese

Art, now also at The British Museum, are described by Margaret Medley in Ming Polychrome Wares in the Percival
明 David Foundation of Chinese Art, where the author illustrates the underside of one, no. A725, pl. XI. A further dish
正 is illustrated by Regina Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume Two, no. 694, pp. 78/9.
德 • A smaller example is illustrated by Marchant in their catalogue of Important Chinese Porcelain from Private

Collections, 2012, no. 4, pp. 16/7.
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