A RARE MING CLOISONNE ENAMEL 'DRAGON' DISH

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A RARE MING CLOISONNE ENAMEL 'DRAGON' DISH
INCISED JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The dish is decorated on the interior medallion with an upright blue-enamelled dragon reserved on a scrolling floral ground, surrounded by three striding dragons, enamelled green, yellow and red respectively, on the cavetto, the exterior with six qilin, each enamelled in different colours, gambolling above rockwork, the dish is raised on a short splayed foot encircling the gilded base bearing the nianhao (enamel losses)
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) diam., wood box

拍品专文

The shape and design of this dish are both taken from the ceramic equivalent. Compare the design format of dragons amidst lotus scrolls with an enamelled Jiajing dish in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated by L. Zhou, 'The Zande Lou Ceramics Gallery', Orientations, May 1997, fig. 2. Also cf. the design on the medallion with the dragon on a Jiajing-marked dish in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, illustrated in Enamelled Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book II, no. 14.

(US$6,400-9,000)