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Large Polychrome Charger with Phoenix
Le-So Dynasty, 15th - 16th c. Vietnam
A large porcelaineous charger with a beautifully drawn blue and green phoenix in flight amongst clouds in the center, surrounded by a narrow band of lotus petals. The cavetto is decorated with ornate Ruyi lotus petals and the barbed rim with a band of cloud motifs. The underside has a similar decoration of ornate Ruyi petals in blue and green.
Condition: Original green, some specks of original red, underside with large areas of glaze loss. Some glaze fritting around the rim.
A similar piece is published “Vietnamese and Chinese Ceramics Used in the Tea Ceremony” by Hiromu Honda and Noriki Shimazu” Oxford University Press, 1993. No. 62.
Provenance:
John R. Menke Collection
Literature:
Published in John Stevenson and John Guy’s “Vietnamese Ceramics - A Separate Tradition” Avery Press, 1997. pl. 247