Refined gathering II—selection of marchant and Japanese collection of ming porcelain

5374 | Jiajing period,(1522-1569 AD) A VERY LARGE BLUE AND WHITE‘DRAGON’BOWL

A VERY LARGE BLUE AND WHITE‘DRAGON’BOWL

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Size: D37cm;H17cm

Signed and dated: Jiajing period,(1522-1569 AD)

Estimate:

Final Price: RMB 240,000


Jiajing Six-Character Mark
PROVENANCE
• Formerly in the collection of an English private gentleman,who ran the Sotheby’s Ceramics Department from the 1960’s
• The S Marchant & Son,no.R9947

A blue and white ’dragon’ bowl,the deep rounded sides rising from a short tapering foot to an everted rim/ painted around the exterior with two scaly five-clawed dragons in pursuit of a flaming pearl,all amidst fire and ruyi cloud scrolls and above a ruyi band,the interior with a dragon medallion