A Fine Transitional Porcelain Blue and White Dish, Shunzhi Period

22650

38.00mm

1.50 inches

For a Shunzhi blue and white porcelain dish of this design see : Shunzhi Porcelain, Treasures from an Unknown Reign (Butler, Curtis and little, University of Washington Press,2002) page 108, item 13. For another dish of this type decorated with this design see : Eastern Ceramics and other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger, Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition (Ashmolean Museum, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981. ISBN 0-90009-078-2) Mis-dated as being early Kangxi c.1680-1700, page 49, plate 98. For a very similar Transitional blue and white porcelain dish with this design see : Chinese Decorative Arts and Export Porcelain, Sotheby`s London, 28th October and 1st Novemmber 1988, lot 440. For a further Transitional porcelain of this design and shape, dated to c.1655-1670, see : Seventeenth-Century Blue and White Porcelain and Copper-Red and Their Predecessors (Exhibition Catalogue, S Marchant & Son, London,June 1997) page 48, plate 46.
For a Blue and White Transitional Porcelain dish of this design see 22135 and for a jar with similar Qilin see 17570 and for another see 21409 in our `Sold` items.

In good condition.

A Fine Chinese Transitional Porcelain Blue and White Dish, Shunzhi Period c.1645-1655. The Thickly Potted Porcelain Saucer Shaped Porcelain Dish is Vigorously Painted in Blue and White in the `High Transitional` Style with a Dramatic Fire Breathing Qilin (Kylin) in a Landscape with a Banana Plant. The Rim Dressed with Iron-Oxide and the Base with a Four Character Mark Yu Tang Jia Qi ("Fine Vessel for the Jade Hall")

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