A BLUE AND WHITE 'PEACOCK' DISH, MING DYNASTY 16TH CENTURY
A BLUE AND WHITE 'PEACOCK' DISH, MING DYNASTY 16TH CENTURYEstimate $2,000 – $3,000
- Lot Sold $2,000 (Hammer Price)
- $2,400 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
spriitedly painted on the interior with a peacock perched beside rockwork and flowering plants, within a band of floral scrolls around the cavetto repeated on the underside 33.5CM
LITERATURE
Compare a related dish in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, A Complete Catalogue ll, Yuan and Ming Dynasty Porcelains, London, 1968, p.568, cat.no.748; see also a similar dish sold Christie's London 10 May 2011, lot 258