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           A JUNYAO PURPLE-SPLASHED DISH                     A RARE GREEN ENAMELLED INCISED ‘DRAGON’ DISH
           Yuan Dynasty                                      Hongzhi six-character mark, 17th century
           The shallow dish covered in a thick glaze of lavender-blue, darkening   Enamelled and incised in the interior with a writhing five-clawed
           at the everted rim to a mushroom hue, the interior highlighted with   dragon, the exterior with a further two striding green dragons.
           three purple splashes, all supported on a short foot.   18cm (7 1/8in) diam.
           21.4cm (8 7/8in) diam.
                                                             £3,000 - 5,000
           £1,500 - 2,000                                    CNY26,000 - 44,000
           CNY13,000 - 18,000
                                                             十七世紀 綠彩刻龍紋盤
           元 鈞窯天青釉紫斑盤                                        青花「大明弘治年製」楷書款

           Provenance: George de Menasce (1890-1967) collection, no.276 (label)   Provenance: Montague L. Meyer collection, no.352 (label)
           Robert Stanley Hope Smith (1910-1979), acquired in 1951, collection   Sotheby’s London, 10 July 1951, lot 109
           no.S3, and thence by descent                      Robert Stanley Hope Smith (1910-1979), collection no.V16,
                                                             and thence by descent
           來源：George de Menasce（1890-1967）舊藏，藏品編號276（標籤）
           Robert Stanley Hope Smith（1910-1979）舊藏，購於1951年，   來源：Montague L. Meyer舊藏，藏品編號352（標籤）
           藏品編號S3，並由後人保存迄今                                   倫敦蘇富比，1951年7月10日，拍品編號109
                                                             Robert Stanley Hope Smith舊藏（1910-1979），藏品編號V16，
           The family of Georges Ferdinand Joseph Behar, Baron, was ennobled by   並由後人保存迄今
           the Austrian emperor after the Congress of Vienna and they were prominent
           in Egypt from at least the 19th century. He was born in Liverpool, where   A similar dish from the Hongzhi period of the same size and shape but
           the family had cotton interests. George de Menasce collected in many   with the dragon surrounded by waves, deeply incised and covered
           areas, and particularly Chinese porcelain. He was a member of the Oriental   with a pale-green enamel, is illustrated by R.Krahl, Chinese Ceramics
           Ceramic Society from 1948 and served on the Council.   from the Meiyintang Collection, vol.2, London, 1994, pl.693. See also
                                                             a Hongzhi dish in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, published in
                                                             Minji meihin zuroku, vol.II, Tokyo, 1977, pl.82, also with the dragon-
                                                             and-cloud design.

                                                             A similar green dragon dish with Hongzhi mark, Kangxi period, was
                                                             sold at Sotheby’s Paris, 11 June 2009, lot 169.


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