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This is a Chinese porcelain plate decorated in the doucai style, featuring a vibrant green dragon. While it bears a six-character mark of the Ming Dynasty Chenghua emperor, the bright, glassy enamels and pristine foot rim indicate it is a modern decorative reproduction. As a modern piece, its value is primarily decorative, estimated between $50 and $150.
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This is a Chinese porcelain plate decorated in the doucai style, featuring a vibrant green dragon. While it bears a six-character mark of the Ming Dynasty Chenghua emperor, the bright, glassy enamels and pristine foot rim indicate it is a modern decorative reproduction. As a modern piece, its value is primarily decorative, estimated between $50 and $150.
Item Report
Chinese Doucai Style Dragon Plate
中国斗彩风格龙纹盘
Merge Reports: Yes (reconciled). Approval remains manual.
By: Unknown
Style: Chinese Porcelain 中国瓷器
Origin: China 中国
Materials: Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze enamels 青花加彩瓷
Age: Late 20th to 21st Century 20世纪晚期至21世纪
Condition: Excellent (appears to be a modern piece with no visible damage) 极好(看似现代制品,无明显损伤)
Value: Authentic Chenghua period: $100,000 - $500,000+; Modern reproduction (as this appears to be): $50 - $150 成化真品:$100,000 - $500,000+;现代仿品(如此件):$50 - $150
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Maker's Marks / Writing: Six-character underglaze blue mark: 大明成化年製 (Da Ming Chenghua Nian Zhi - Made in the Great Ming Chenghua Period) 青花六字款:大明成化年製
Date: 2026-08-31 22:05:35.696777
Description:
A Chinese porcelain plate decorated in the doucai style, featuring a central medallion of a green dragon amidst stylized clouds. The exterior is decorated with a continuous scrolling vine and lingzhi fungus motif. The base bears an apocryphal six-character Chenghua reign mark within a double blue circle. 一件中国斗彩风格瓷盘,中心开光内绘绿龙穿梭于祥云之间。外壁饰以连续的缠枝灵芝纹。底足内有青花双圈“大明成化年制”寄托款。
Curator Questions
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Assessment:
This plate is a modern decorative reproduction of a Ming Dynasty Chenghua period doucai ware. The enamels are bright and sit high on the surface, lacking the soft, integrated appearance of genuine period pieces. The potting, glaze, and execution of the mark are characteristic of recent manufacture. It is a decorative item rather than an authentic antique. 此盘为现代仿明代成化斗彩瓷器的装饰性仿品。釉上彩颜色鲜艳且浮于表面,缺乏真品那种柔和、与釉面融为一体的质感。胎体、釉面以及款识的书写方式均具有近期制造的特征。这是一件装饰品,而非真正的古董。
Individual Images:
- whole plate front view
- detail of dragon
- side view
- angled underside
- underside
- detail of reign mark
- detail of foot rim
- detail of exterior decoration
Provenance:
None provided 未提供
Condition:
Excellent (appears to be a modern piece with no visible damage) 极好(看似现代制品,无明显损伤)
Identification Score: 95%
The form, decoration (doucai dragon and clouds), and mark clearly identify it as a copy of a Chenghua doucai plate. 其器型、纹饰(斗彩龙纹和云纹)以及款识清楚地表明它是一件仿成化斗彩盘。
Authenticity Score: 5%
The piece exhibits characteristics of modern mass production. The enamels are overly bright and lack the depth and subtle wear expected on an antique. The glaze is very uniform and glassy, and the foot rim lacks the typical signs of age and firing characteristics of the Ming dynasty. The mark, while attempting to copy a Chenghua mark, is stiffly written. 该器物表现出现代批量生产的特征。珐琅彩过于鲜艳,缺乏古董应有的深度和微妙的磨损痕迹。釉面非常均匀且呈玻璃状,底足缺乏明代典型的岁月痕迹和烧造特征。款识虽然试图模仿成化款,但书写生硬。
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Keywords
Chinese porcelain, doucai, dragon plate, Chenghua mark, reproduction, decorative arts, China 中国瓷器, 斗彩, 龙纹盘, 成化款, 仿品, 装饰艺术, 中国
Peer Review Summary
Peer Review
Key Visible Evidence
Images reveal a porcelain plate decorated in the doucai style with a central green dragon and stylized clouds. The overglaze enamels appear bright, glassy, and sit high on the surface, lacking the soft integration typical of period wares. The base features a six-character underglaze blue mark (大明成化年製), but the regular-script (kaishu) calligraphy is stiff and uniform, missing the characteristic soft, slightly irregular execution of genuine 15th-century marks. The pristine foot rim and uniform glaze show no signs of historical wear or age.
Market and Source Support
Museum documentation (e.g., the Metropolitan Museum of Art, British Museum) confirms that authentic Chenghua (1465–1487) doucai wares are exceptionally rare, typically small vessels like chicken cups, and feature softly toned underglaze blue with highly refined, thin potting. The bright, raised enamels and stiffly copied apocryphal mark on this plate are diagnostic features of modern decorative reproductions widely documented in contemporary market reference guides.
Needs Verification
['While definitively a modern reproduction, the exact decade of recent manufacture (late 20th vs. early 21st century) cannot be pinpointed without physical inspection of the glaze matrix.']
Audit Conclusion
The draft report is fully supported. Visible evidence and grounded sources confirm the plate is a modern decorative reproduction bearing an apocryphal Chenghua mark.
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