A BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' DISH, ZHENGDE FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1506-1521)

A BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' DISH
ZHENGDE FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1506-1521)
The dish is decorated in the center with a five-clawed dragon amidst flower scroll within a double-line border below similar decoration of two dragons in the well, which is repeated on the exterior above a band of ruyi heads on the slightly tapered foot ring.
8 3/8 in. (21.2 cm.) diam., cloth box

Provenance

Lindberg Collection.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28 November 1978, lot 65.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F. BROWN