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

5375 | Jiajing period,(1561 AD) A RARE BLUE AND WHITE‘CRANE’PLATE

A RARE BLUE AND WHITE‘CRANE’PLATE

Author: --

Size: D21.5cm

Signed and dated: Jiajing period,(1561 AD)

Estimate:

Final Price: RMB 420,000


Jiajing Eight-Character Mark
PROVENANCE
• Formerly in a European private collection
• The S Marchant & Son,no.M4260

A blue and white dated saucer dish with three birds perched on branches of a flowering camellia tree beneath the sun amongst insects in flight,all within a wide band of six cranes in flight interspersed with clouds,the underside with prunus,pine and bamboo.