A blue and white 'Buddhist lions' saucer-dish


Xuande six-character mark and of the period The finely potted dish with the low rounded sides and a slightly everted rim, the skilfully painted interior with two Buddhist lions gambolling around a ribboned brocade ball amidst various auspicious emblems, the exterior painted with further five lions, two gripping brocade balls in their jaws and the others grasping the flowing ribbons, all within double-line borders encircling the rims and gently tapered foot. 14.9cm (5 13/15 in) diam. (2).
|明宣德 青花雙獅戲球紋盤青花「大明宣德年製」楷書款Provenance: Christie's Hong Kong, 28 November 2005, lot 1410A European private collection來源：2005年11月28日於佳士得香港拍賣，拍品1410號歐洲私人收藏Compare a similar but larger blue and white dish, Xuande mark and period, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 1998, pp.410, pl.178.