A blue and white dragon dish, Ming dynasty with Jiajings six character mark and of the period (1522-66).
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Of square form, painted with a pair of clawed confronting five-clawed dragons reaching for a peach inscribed with the shou character, born on a leafy stem, emerging from rockwork amidst crashing waves. The sides with four sinuous dragons flying amidst cloud scrolls. The base inscribed with a six character mark. Measurement 27x27 cm.
Restored.
Provenance
From the Collection of Christer Löfgren. Mr Löfgren is a prominent collector of Asian Art, Bukowskis has previously had the honour of selling parts of his vast collection. After publishing the second book on Chinese Imperial Regin Marks, the volume ‘Understanding Chinese Reign marks’, he has made the decision to sell his final pieces.
Purchased from Marchant & Son in London, in the 1990's.
Exhibitions
Compare a similar dish in the: Collection of Chinese Art at Winchest Colleague.
Provenance: Bequeathed as part of the Duberly Collection, 1978; purchased by Major Montagu and Lady Eileen Duberly from the collection of C.M. Woodbridge, sold Sotheby’s, London, 8 May 1951, lot 9.
They describe the motif as; - That the dragons are on either side of Mount Penglai, one of the Isles of the Blest. A peach tree springs from its summit bearing a peach inscribed with the character Shou. On either side are the other Isles of the Blest, Fangzhang and Yingzhou.
Literature
Bo Gyllensvärd, Ming blue and white, from Swedish Collections. The Museum of Far Eastern Antquities, compare a dish depicted on page 52. Lot no 49. From the Collection of Einar Lauritzen.
Anthony du Boulay, The Duberly Collection of Chinese Art at Winchester College (Winchester, 2019), p. 29.