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A RARE YELLOW-GLAZED BLUE AND 明十五世紀 黃釉青花嬰戲圖高
PROPERTY FROM A NORTH AMERICAN PRIVATE Closely related dishes include one in the 明正德 白地暗刻海水素胎綠彩雲
COLLECTION British Museum, London, published in Jessica WHITE ‘BOYS AT PLAY’ STEMBOWL 足盌
A GREEN-ENAMELED ‘DRAGON’ Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British 龍紋盤 MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY
DISH Museum, London, 2001, pls 8: 33-35; one in the 《大明正德年製》款 elegantly potted, the tall cylindrical stem
ZHENGDE MARK AND PERIOD Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Lu Minghua, 來源 rising from a slightly spreading foot to a deep
Shanghai Bowuguan zangpin yanjiu daxi/
with shallow rounded sides supported on Studies of the Shanghai Museum Collections: Elsie Caroline Borden Hohlweg (1910年生) rounded bowl flaring at the rim, painted to
the exterior in cobalt tones with a lively scene
a short slightly tapered foot, the interior A Series of Monographs. Mingdai guanyao ciqi 收藏，此後家族傳承 of boys at play within a fenced garden, some
decorated with a central medallion enclosing [Ming imperial porcelain], Shanghai, 2007, playing ball games, others burning incense or
a five-clawed dragon writhing among stylized pl. 1-44. See also a dish of this type, from the walking birds, all above a lappet band, the stem
clouds, the head, scaly body and limbs finely collections of R.H.R. Palmer and Edward T. with stylized clouds floating above crested
incised, reserved on the biscuit and covered Chow, included in the Oriental Ceramic Society waves, the interior with a central medallion of
with green enamel, the claws and spikes picked exhibition Polychrome Porcelain of the Ming three boys under a pine tree within a triple-line
out in green enamel over the glaze, all within and Manchu Dynasties, London, 1950, cat. no. border, the interior rim encircled by a floral
a green circle repeated at the rim, the exterior 77, sold in our London rooms, 27th November diaper band, the rim bound in metal
similarly decorated with two five-clawed 1962, lot 18, and in our Hong Kong rooms, 25th Diameter 5¾ in., 14.5 cm
dragons striding above crested waves and November 1980, lot 37; a second dish from the
rocks, the base with a six-character mark in Edward T. Chow Collection sold in our Hong
underglaze blue within a double circle Kong rooms, 19th May 1981, lot 447. $ 10,000-15,000
Diameter 7 in., 17.8 cm
$ 30,000-50,000
PROVENANCE
Collection of Elsie Caroline Borden Hohlweg (b.
1910), and thence by descent.

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