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A BLUE AND WHITE SHONZUI STYLE CIRCULAR ‘HARE’ A BLUE AND WHITE SHONZUI STYLE CIRCULAR ‘MELON’
SERVING DISH SERVING DISH
Tianqi (1621-1627) Tianqi (1621-1627)
Painted at the center with a hare with a lingzhi in its mouth reserved Painted at the center with a large single melon borne on a leafy vine
on a blue-ground circular medallion which is itself reserved on a larger that bi-furcates a T-cell-pattern ground on the lower-half of the dish, all
quartered medallion with scales, Y-pattern, diaper-cell and key-fret within a pale-blue-ground key-pattern band at the rim, the exterior with
with wan below conjoined cash symbol at the well and a classic scroll flowerheads and tendrils.
reserved on the border, the exterior with blossoms and foliage. 8 1/4in (21cm) diameter
8 1/4in (21cm) diameter
$2,000 - 3,000
$2,000 - 3,000
明天啟 青花祥瑞式瓜紋盤
明天啟 青花祥瑞式玉兔盤

For a very similar example see Christie’s, London, The Peony Pavilion
Collection: Chinese Tea Ceramics for Japan (c.1580-1650), 12 June
1989, lot 219 and also illustrated by M. Kawahara, Ko-sometsuke, 2
Vols. 1977, p. 160, no. 632.

Other examples of this rare design can be found in Chinese Porcelain,
The Transitional Period (1620-1683): a selection from the Michael
Butler Collection, Princesshof Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands,
1986, p. 29, no. 17. and another in the full shonzui style with the same
type of elaborate trellis-pattern ground centered by a hare but with
elaborate roundels at the border, see The 15th Anniversary Catalogue,
Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 1981, p.211, no. 929.

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