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Auction archive: Lot number 97

A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ DISH MING DYNASTY, LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH...

Estimate
£60,000 - £80,000
ca. US$96,633 - US$128,844
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 97

A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ DISH MING DYNASTY, LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH...

Estimate
£60,000 - £80,000
ca. US$96,633 - US$128,844
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

A large blue and white ‘dragon’ dish Ming dynasty, late 15th/early 16th century sturdily potted with rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to a wide and everted rim, the interior freely painted with a central medallion enclosing a sinuous coiled dragon (xiangcaolong) grasping a lotus spray in its mouth, all surrounded by a ruyi band and three further dragons pacing along the well with lotus sprays in their mouths, the rim encircled by a classic scroll, the decoration repeated on the exterior 52cm., 20 1/2 in.

Auction archive: Lot number 97
Auction:
Datum:
6 Nov 2013
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

A large blue and white ‘dragon’ dish Ming dynasty, late 15th/early 16th century sturdily potted with rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to a wide and everted rim, the interior freely painted with a central medallion enclosing a sinuous coiled dragon (xiangcaolong) grasping a lotus spray in its mouth, all surrounded by a ruyi band and three further dragons pacing along the well with lotus sprays in their mouths, the rim encircled by a classic scroll, the decoration repeated on the exterior 52cm., 20 1/2 in.

Auction archive: Lot number 97
Auction:
Datum:
6 Nov 2013
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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