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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘BUDDHIST LIONS’ SAUCER-DISH Compare a similar but larger blue and white dish, Xuande mark and
Xuande six-character mark and of the period period, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Catalogue
The finely potted dish with the low rounded sides and a slightly everted of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains of
rim, the skilfully painted interior with two Buddhist lions gambolling the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 1998, pp.410, pl.178.
around a ribboned brocade ball amidst various auspicious emblems,
the exterior painted with further five lions, two gripping brocade balls
in their jaws and the others grasping the flowing ribbons, all within
double-line borders encircling the rims and gently tapered foot.
14.9cm (5 13/15 in) diam. (2).

£20,000 - 30,000
CNY180,000 - 270,000

明宣德 青花雙獅戲球紋盤
青花「大明宣德年製」楷書款

Provenance: Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 November 2005, lot 1410
A European private collection

來源：
2005年11月28日於佳士得香港拍賣，拍品1410號
歐洲私人收藏 Image courtesy of the National
Palace Museum, Taipei

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