Lot Essay
No other dish of this pattern appears to be recorded.
The present lot may best be compared to Jiajing iron-red and yellow guans with similar striding dragons amid clouds and lingzhi scrolls, such as the covered example in in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, illustrated by Lion-Goldschmidt, Ming Porcelain, pl. 145; the uncovered example in the Idemitsu Museum of Art included in the Exhibition In Pursuit of the Dragon, Seattle Art Museum, 1988, Catalogue, no. 44 where the author discusses the painting technique; and the example in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, included in the O.C.S. special Exhibition Iron in the Fire, 1988, Catalogue, no. 64 where it is suggested that wares of this palette received three firings
The present lot may best be compared to Jiajing iron-red and yellow guans with similar striding dragons amid clouds and lingzhi scrolls, such as the covered example in in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, illustrated by Lion-Goldschmidt, Ming Porcelain, pl. 145; the uncovered example in the Idemitsu Museum of Art included in the Exhibition In Pursuit of the Dragon, Seattle Art Museum, 1988, Catalogue, no. 44 where the author discusses the painting technique; and the example in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, included in the O.C.S. special Exhibition Iron in the Fire, 1988, Catalogue, no. 64 where it is suggested that wares of this palette received three firings