LOT 1 A FINE IMPERIAL GREEN-ENAMELLED 'DRAGON' DISH
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D. 19,8 cm
A FINE IMPERIAL GREEN-ENAMELLED 'DRAGON' DISH, China, underglaze blue Zhengde six-character mark and of the period, with shallow rounded sides supported on a short slightly tapered foot, the interior decorated with a central medallion enclosing a five-clawed dragon writhing among stylized clouds, the head, scaly body and limbs finely incised, reserved on the biscuit and covered with green enamel, the claws and spikes picked out in green enamel over the glaze, all within a green circle repeated at the rim, the exterior incised with two five-clawed dragons striding above crested waves and rocks, similarly reserved on the biscuit and painted with a green enamel against the white ground, the base with a six-character reign in underglaze blue within a double ring - This design of green dragons is based on rare Chenghua (AD 1465-87) prototypes. A dish with green dragons on the exterior only, enamelled over the glaze over cobalt-blue outlines, was included in the exhibition Chenghua ciqi tezhan/Special Exhibition of Ch'eng-hua Porcelain Ware, 1465-1487, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2003, cat. no. 109, together with two similar bowls, cat. nos. 107-8, and two bowls with green dragons enamelled over biscuit silhouettes, cat. nos. 110-11. Three similar dishes are in the British Museum, London, see Jessica Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pls. 8: 33-35. One in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Lu Minghua, Shanghai Bowuguan cangpin yanjiu daxi/Studies of the Shanghai Museum Collections : A Series of Monographs. Mingdai guanyao ciqi [Ming imperial porcelain], Shanghai, 2007, pl. 1-44; one from collections of R.H.R. Palmer and Edward T. Chow, included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Polychrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties, London, 1950, cat. no. 77 - This plate was given to the Roemer Museum Hildesheim to be stored and exhibited in 1899 - Very minor wear to enamel
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