A rare pair of blue and white 'phoenix' dishes, Marks and period of Longqing
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May 15, 12:42 PM GMT
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Description
the base of each with a four-character mark in underglaze blue (2)
Diameter of larger 19.5 cm, 7⅝ in.
Marchant, London.
Compare an identical dish sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 26th November 1980, lot 236; another with a fu gui jia qi ('fine vessel for wealth and honour') mark illustrated in Regina Krahl & John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, vol. II, London, 1986, cat. no. 1212; and another in S. T. Yeo and Jean Martin, Chinese Blue and White Ceramics, Singapore, 1978, cat. no. 120, pl. 65.
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