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Lot 135 Dα

A large blue and white dish. Jiajing period (1522–1566)

Auction 1203 - overview Cologne
11.06.2022, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.500 €
Result: 1.134 € (incl. premium)
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A large blue and white dish. Jiajing period (1522–1566)

With flaring shaped rim, decorated in underglaze-blue with a phoenix perched on a rock watching the sun indicated by the character "ri" in a circle within a cloud, around the well with a band of entwined foliate scrollwork, the rim with hatch pattern, to the exterior with three winged dragons pursuing flaming pearls amidst flames and above waves, beneath a whorl pattern border. A four-character mark Da Ming Nian Zao (Made During the Great Ming Dynasty) to the base.
Diameter 31.2 cm

明嘉靖 青花雲鳳紋大盤
「大明年造」 款
來源： 德國萊茵蘭私人收藏，購於二十世紀六十年代，之后由家族繼承

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland, acquired in the 1960s, and thence by family descent

Literature

An almost identical dish belongs to the Topkapi Museum Collection in Istanbul, obj. number TKS 15/3617, see Regina Krahl in collaboration with Nurdan Erbahar, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, A complete catalogue, Vol. 2, Yuan and Ming Dynasty Porcelains, London 1986, p. 582, fig. 786