AN EXTREMELY RARE UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND YELLOW ENAMEL 'POMEGRANATE' DISH MARK AND PERIOD OF CHENGHUA the brightly enamelled yellow dish with curved sides and a flared rim, painted on the interior in pale underglaze blue with a large flowering pomegranate spray with two open blooms and three attendant buds on a leafy gnarled stem, encircled on the cavetto with detached branches of peach, crab apple, cherry and lychee, all drawn in outlines and coloured with blue washes, the central ribs of the leaves and other features reserved in white and details painted in blue, the exterior painted with four formal lotus sprays with the heart of the flower either hidden or revealed, the six-character reign mark horizontally inscribed in underglaze blue below the rim, all reserved against a deep egg-yolk yellow ground, the base and inside of the foot left unglazed 29. 6 cm., 11.5/8 in.
AN EXTREMELY RARE UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND YELLOW ENAMEL 'POMEGRANATE' DISH MARK AND PERIOD OF CHENGHUA the brightly enamelled yellow dish with curved sides and a flared rim, painted on the interior in pale underglaze blue with a large flowering pomegranate spray with two open blooms and three attendant buds on a leafy gnarled stem, encircled on the cavetto with detached branches of peach, crab apple, cherry and lychee, all drawn in outlines and coloured with blue washes, the central ribs of the leaves and other features reserved in white and details painted in blue, the exterior painted with four formal lotus sprays with the heart of the flower either hidden or revealed, the six-character reign mark horizontally inscribed in underglaze blue below the rim, all reserved against a deep egg-yolk yellow ground, the base and inside of the foot left unglazed 29. 6 cm., 11.5/8 in.
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