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A GREEN-ENAMELED ‘DRAGON’ Three similar dishes are in the British Museum, dish from the Edward T. Chow collection sold in
DISH London, see Jessica Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics our Hong Kong rooms, 19th May 1981, lot 447;
ZHENGDE MARK AND PERIOD in the British Museum, London, 2001, pls 8:33- and a dish from the British Rail Pension Fund sold
35. One in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in four times in our rooms in London 13th December
with low rounded sides rising from a short Lu Minghua, Shanghai Bowuguan zangpin yanjiu 1966, lot 73; 1st July 1969, lot 149; and 17th
tapered foot, nely carved in the biscuit and daxi/Studies of the Shanghai Museum Collections November 1970, lot 76, and in Hong Kong 16th
enameled in a bright translucent green, the : A Series of Monographs. Mingdai guanyao ciqi May 1989, lot 27.
interior with a sinuous ve-clawed dragon striding [Ming imperial porcelain], Shanghai, 2007, pl.
amid clouds and ames, the exterior decorated 1-44; one from the collections of R.H.R. Palmer $ 40,000-60,000
with two further dragons against a ground of and Edward T. Chow, included in the Oriental
Ceramic Society exhibition Polychrome Porcelain
nely incised foaming waves, the base with a six- of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties, London,
character mark within a double circle 1950, cat. no. 77, sold in our London rooms, 27th
Diameter 6⅛ in., 15.6cm November 1962, lot 18 and in our Hong Kong
rooms, 25th November 1980, lot 37; a second

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