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十 17. Imperial blue and white deep saucer, pan, with flat everted rim, painted in the centre with a crane on one leg with its
七 head turned, on a rocky promontory, beside a large pine tree with lingzhi and bamboo, further rocks in the distance,

all beneath stylised clouds, encircled within a double ring, the rim with a continuous band of scrolls on a blue-washed
御 ground, the underside with grass sprays beneath flowerheads and branches.
製 12cm diameter.
青 The base with six-character mark of Jiajing within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1522-1566.
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松 • Formerly in a British private collection.
鶴 • A related small saucer of this form, painted with two cranes and pine is illustrated by Regina Krahl and John Ayers in
延 Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, A Complete Catalogue, Volume II, Yuan and Ming Dynasty
年 Porcelains, 1986, no. 1152, collection no. 15/2643, pp. 692/3.
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