A VERY LARGE AND RARE CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL DRAGON CHARGER

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20.000 € - 30.000 €

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China, Ming dynasty
D. 63 cm
Of circular form with a large five-clawed yellow dragon above waves and a further smaller red dragon. The border depicts twelve lotos blossoms amidst scrollwork.
From an important German private collection, acquired on April 23, 1983, from A. C. Beeling & Zoon Antiquairs, Leeuwarden, Netherlands (copy of the invoice preserved)
Cf. for an imperial dish in the Qing Court collection, see 'Metal-bodied Enamel Ware, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum', Hong Kong, 2002, pl. 47; another is in the British Museum, illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz, Chinese Cloisonne: The Pierre Uldry Collection, 1989, Fig. 61, where the authors discuss a similar dish in the National Palace Museum, where the mark has been effaced and replaced by an engraved apocryphal lingtai mark; an unpublished example is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. An example of a basin in situ in the Chuxiugong, 'Palace of Gathering Excellence', supported on an elaborate rosewood stand inlaid with mother-of-pearl, is illustrated in Life of the Emperors and Empresses in the Forbidden City, p. 81 - Very minor losses to enamel, partly filled

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