Lot 126. The Leshantang Collection. A fine yellow-glazed dish, Mark and period of Hongzhi (1488-1505); 21.5 cm. Lot Sold 1,778,000 HKD (Estimate 200,000 - 300,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2024

with shallow rounded sides resting on a tapered foot, applied overall with an even pale yellow glaze, the base left white and inscribed with a six-character reign mark in underglaze blue within a double circle.

Provenance: An important Asian private collection.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 17th May 1988, lot 2.

Literature: The Leshantang Collection of Chinese Porcelain, Taipei, 2005, pl. 14.

Note: A closely related dish from the Qing Court collection and still in Beijing is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 3; another in the Taipei Palace Museum is published in Minji meihin zuroku [Illustrated catalogue of important Ming porcelains], vol. 2, Tokyo, 1977, pl. 78. One of the very rare examples of imperial Chinese dishes of this type to have reached the Near or Middle East is illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, London, 1986, vol. 2, pl. 774, and again in colour, p. 447.

Compare one from the H.M. Knight collection, sold in our London rooms, 12th May 1970, lot 51, and again at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3rd December 2008, lot 2541; a pair of dishes from the Hall Family collection sold in these rooms, 2nd May 2000, lot 503; and a further example sold at Christie's Paris, 15th June 2005, lot 204, and again in these rooms, 8th October 2013, lot 224.

Sotheby's. The Leshantang Collection (II) – Treasures of Chinese Art from the Tsai I-Ming Collection, Hong Kong, 9 April 2024.