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312 A FINE AND LARGE 清順治 青花芭蕉麒麟圖大盤
BLUE AND WHITE
‘QILIN’ DISH

Qing Dynasty, Shunzhi Period PROVENANCE 後刻「大宅」字
stoutly potted with rounded sides rising from Spink & Sons, Ltd., London. 來源
a short tapered and chaneled foot, the interior Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc., New York, 2001. Spink & Sons, Ltd.，倫敦
boldly painted in strong tones of cobalt blue For a dish of similar size, subject matter Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc.，紐約，2001年
with an animated qilin sitting on its scaly and quality, see the example in the Palace
back haunches, one front leg outstretched, Museum, Beijing illustrated in Gugong
the other with hoof raised, bearing a benign Bowuyuan Cang Qingdai Ciqi Leixuan Qing
expression, the head gazing forward with Shunzhi Kangxi Chao Qinghuaci, [Selected
bulging eyes and mouth agape revealing sharp Chinese Ceramics from the Palace Museum:
fangs and emitting wisps of qi, the foreground Blue and White Ceramics in Shunzhi and
with auspicious hoofprints of the mythological Kangxi Periods], vol. I, Beijing, 2004, pl. 20
beast and a beribboned artemisia leaf, all and, another in the Butler Family Collection,
amidst rockwork and a lush plantain tree, illustrated in Shunzhi Porcelain, Treasures from
the underside with three further auspicious an Unknown Reign, Seattle and London, 2002,
symbols, the rim dressed in an iron-oxide cat. no. 13.
wash, the base undecorated save for a drilled
collector’s mark da zhai, coll. no. 1387 $ 8,000-12,000

Diameter 13¾ in., 35 cm

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