Un bol dragon - dynastie Ming, marque et époque Zhengde (1506-1521)

A green dragon bowl, Ming dynasty, mark and period of Zhengde.

décoré sur le pourtour extérieur blanc de deux dragons incisés, le biscuit laissé apparent émaillé vert, un troisième dragon similairement incisé et émaillé à l'intérieur du bol, la base circulaire avec la marque en kaishu Zhengde à six caractères dans un double cercle en bleu sous couverte. diam. 18.7cm, 7 3/8 in. Estimé: 40,000—60,000 EUR

LITERATURE AND REFERENCES: Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 833.

Chinese Ceramic Treasures, a Selection from the Ulricehamn East Asian Museum, Including The Carl Kempe Collection. The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 2002, p. 310, no. 1017.

CATALOGUE NOTE: Zhengde bowls of this size and pattern can be found in important museums and private collections, including one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 156; and one in the Art Institute of Chicago, which was included in the China Institute in America exhibition Ming Porcelains, China House, New York, 1970, cat. no. 39. Compare also two bowls of this type in Japan, one in the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 175; and the other from a private collection included in the Japan Society exhibition Yuan and Ming Ceramics, Tokyo, 1956, cat. no. 34.

A similar bowl was sold in these rooms, 2^nd May 2005, lot 616; and another, from the collection of H.R.N. Norton, included in the exhibition Chinese Art, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 1954, cat. no. 687, was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 18^th May 1982, lot 176.

A further example, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. R. Palmer, illustrated in Soame Jenyns, Ming Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1953, pl. 79B, was sold in our London rooms, 27^th November 1962, lot 22.