A rare chinese porcelain blue and white 'cockerel' charger. Ming Dynasty, Jiajing period (1522-66). Photo Gibson Antiques

well painted with two cockerels within a fenced rocky garden, the rim decorated with fruit and auspicious objects, the underside with birds perched in branches, hare mark. Diameter 34.5cm - Price on request

Provenance: Portuguese private collection

For a similar dish see Chinese Export Porcelain, from the Museum of Anastacio Goncalves, Lisbon, 1996, Portugal, by Maria Antonia Pinto de Matos, catalogue no: 14 p.66-67.

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