Gems of Imperial Porcelain from the Private Collection of Joseph Lau
Gems of Imperial Porcelain from the Private Collection of Joseph Lau
An extremely rare and superb blue and white ‘dragon’ dish Mark and period of Chenghua | 明成化 青花雙龍趕珠紋盤 《大明成化年製》款
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An extremely rare and superb blue and white ‘dragon’ dish
Mark and period of Chenghua
明成化 青花雙龍趕珠紋盤 《大明成化年製》款
finely potted with shallow rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to an everted rim, sensitively and delicately painted on the exterior in muted tones of cobalt blue with two sinuous scaly five-clawed dragons in pursuit of flaming pearls amidst clouds, each flaming pearl rendered in the form of a peach, all between double-line borders encircling the rim and foot
16.3 cm
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 27th October 1992, lot 39.
香港蘇富比1992年10月27日，編號39
Sotheby's Hong Kong – Twenty Years, Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 105.
Sotheby's. Thirty Years in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2003, pl. 252.
《香港蘇富比二十週年》，香港，1993年，圖版105
《香港蘇富比三十週年》，香港，2003年，圖版252