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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE ‘DEER AND CRANES’ DISH
JIAJING PERIOD (1522-1566)
The dish is heavily potted with rounded sides and is decorated on the interior with a central roundel
of a pair of deer and a pair of cranes with a fence in the background, all below two fruiting peach trees
alternating with two trees with spreading branches in the well. Two further fruiting peach branches extend
around the exterior between two squirrels on a small, fruit-laden peach branch. The base is unglazed.
16 in. (40.5 cm) diam., Japanese wood box

$12,000-18,000

PROVENANCE
Ira (1913-2004) and Nancy (1915-2005) Koger Collection.
Property of the Jacksonville Art Museum; Sotheby’s New York,
1-2 June 1993, lot 308.
Private collection, Japan.
LITERATURE
J. Ayers, Koger Collection, London, 1985, p. 88, no. 63.
明嘉靖 青花鹿鶴同春圖大盤

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