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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘TIGER’ DISH A BLUE AND WHITE ‘LUOHAN’ BOWL
Shunzhi Jiajing six-character mark, circa 1660
The deep rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, painted to With gently rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, painted
the interior with a central medallion depicting a striding prowling tiger in shades of underglaze blue to the exterior with four luohans
through a rocky landscape, the sides further depicting various flowers seated on lotus blossoms encircled by a mandorla, alternated with
in bloom issuing from rockwork, alternating with birds perched on four characters reading ‘A Mi Tuo Fo’, or Amitabha, the interior
branches. with a central medallion enclosing a character reading ‘Shan’, or
35cm (13 3/4in) wide righteousness. 14.6cm (5 3/4in) diam.

£4,000 - 6,000 CNY39,000 - 58,000 £2,000 - 3,000 CNY19,000 - 29,000
HK$47,000 - 71,000 HK$24,000 - 35,000

清順治 青花伏虎圖盤 約1660年 青花「阿彌陀佛」盌
青花「大明嘉靖年製」楷書款
Provenance: a distinguished European private collection
Provenance: a distinguished European Private Collection
來源： 歐洲顯赫私人收藏
來源： 歐洲顯赫私人收藏
Compare with a blue and white dish in the Asian Art Museum of San
Francisco, Shunzhi period, with a related tiger design, illustrated by Compare with a blue and white bowl in the Shanghai Museum,
S.Little, Chinese Ceramics of the Transitional Period: 1620-1683, New Shunzhi period with very similar designs of Buddhist figures and
York, 1984, Catalogue no.39. characters, illustrated in Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain
from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections, Shanghai,
2005, pl.47.

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