P177 - CHINESE MING BLUE-AND-WHITE SAUCER

 

Jiajing/Wanli period

Dragon design with underside decorated with what has been erroneously called “onion pattern” by the Europeans, copper bands enclose the outer rims, marks enclosed in concentric circles

6 ½ (16.5 cm) diameter

 

LITERATURE

For similar example please see Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, pg 187, plate 26, fig 111.

 

EXHIBITION

On display in the “George Ryland Scott Collection” in The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art from June 1955 until May 1960.