A blue and white dish, Ming dynasty with Jiajing mark and of the period (1522-66).
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Decorated in underglaze blue with four sprigs of flowers within double circles. The reverse of the rim with further eight flowers sprigs, and the the base marked with Jiajing six character mark within double circle. Diameter 19.5 cm.
Rim slightly polished.
Provenance
From the Collection of Ebbe Helmuth Adam Berner (1894-1971), Denmark. Ebbe Berner was a Danish interior architect and worked for Danish embassies for many years. As he grew up in a Danish manor, the estate of Holstenshuus, Ebbe Berner also specialized in interior decoration of Manor houses. He was very passionate and inspired by Asian art and made numerous journeys in China from 1920s until 1940s where he acquired a large collection of Chinese art and antiques.
The piece is listed in Ebbes own inventory as purchased T.Y. King, Shanghai, 202 Canton Road, in February 1937 (see photo of collectors inventory) thence by descent to the present owner.
Exhibitions
To see other items sold from this collection with Bukowskis, see sale 597, 2016, lot no 288-291.
Ebbe Helmuth Adam Berner (1894-1971), Denmark. Was one of the Danish collectors who leded object to the Kopenhagen Exhibiton in 1950. ‘Kinas Kunst i Svensk og Dansk eje, det danske Kunstindustrimuseum, Kobenhamn’, 1950.