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A RARE LARGE MING BLUE-GROUND 'CRANES' DISH
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A RARE LARGE MING BLUE-GROUND 'CRANES' DISH
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    HK$1,200,000 - HK$1,500,000
  • ($155,535 - $194,419)

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Sale 2711
the imperial saleimportant chinese ceramics and works of art
27 May 2009
Convention Hall Buy Catalog




Lot Description

A RARE LARGE MING BLUE-GROUND 'CRANES' DISH
JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)

The deep dish with rounded sides, slightly recessed in the centre, the interior with a central medallion boldly painted with five cranes in flight amidst four leafy fruiting peach sprigs and four lingzhi-sprays issuing from rockwork, below a quatrefoil cartouche enclosing a shou character, all reserved on an inky-violet-blue ground leaving a double-line border in white, further repeated at the rim, the exterior similarly decorated with fruiting peach sprigs flanked by pairs of flying cranes divided by lingzhi
13 in. (33 cm.) diam.


明嘉靖 藍地白花仙鶴拱壽紋盤 六字楷書款

盤心於藍地上留白繪五羽仙鶴飛舞於結實纍纍的桃樹枝幹間，樹梢為一棱口開光壽字紋，間以靈芝與如意雲紋；外壁亦以相同手法繪飾雙鶴拱壽桃。

此拍品早期曾於香港蘇富比1995年10月 31日拍品377拍售， 之後再於香港佳士得 2003年 10月27日拍品618拍出。

另外兩件十分相似的他例，分別收藏於日本的出光美術館，及原為Avery Brundage藏品，現屬於舊金山亞洲藝術館。英國大維德藏品中也有一件裝飾手法相同的藍地白花壽桃樹紋盤。

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Lot Notes

Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 31 October 1995, lot 377 and sold again at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 October 2003, lot 618.

Compare two similar examples with this striking design reserved on a rich blue-ground, the first illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, vol. II, no. 706; and a dish formerly from the Avery Brundage Collection, now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, A New Comprehensive Survey, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1996, no. 421, p. 244.

A smaller related reverse-decorated dish with a fruiting peach tree in the form of a shou character from the Percival David Foundation, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha series, 1975, vol. 6, no. 81.

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