Lot 2255. A pair of yellow and green enamelled 'Crane' dishes, Jiajing six-character marks and of the period (1522-1566); 7 1/8 in. (18.3 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 400,000 - HKD 600,000. Price realised HKD 500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013

Each dish is potted with rounded sides flaring to an everted rim, the interior incised with a medallion of a trigram encircled by six cranes in flight amidst clouds within a line border. The crane and cloud motif are repeated as a frieze on the exterior, all highlighted in green against an egg yolk-yellow ground, box.

Provenance: Bluett & Sons, London.
Ralph M. Chait, New York, December 1964
Evelyn Annenberg Hall Collection
Sold at Christie's New York, 29 March 2006, lot 92.

Note: A Jiajing-marked dish of this design and size was included in the National Palace Museum exhibition, Good Fortune, Long Life, Health, and Peace: A Special Exhibition of Porcelains with Auspicious Designs, Taipei, 1995, p. 139, no. 62.

Christie's. Imperial Sale, Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 29 May 2013, Hong Kong, HKCEC Grand Hall