A fine yellow-glazed saucer dish.. Hongzhi six-character mark and of the period. Photo Bonhams

Attractively glazed in a rich pale mustard-yellow across the entire interior and on the exterior down to the edge of the foot, the interior of the foot reserved with a rich oily clear glaze over the blue mark, fitted box. 21.5cm (8½in) diam. (2). Estimate: £30,000 - 50,000, CNY 300,000 - 490,000,
HK$ 360,000 - 600,000

Provenance: Peter Boode, London, sold in 1946 for £50.00
Lord Cunliffe, PM31
Sold in these Rooms, 11 November 2002, lot 70
S.Marchant and Son, London
Anthony Evans

For a very similar dish in the collection of the Shanghai Museum, see the Museum Catalogue, Shanghai Museum, Ancient Chinese Ceramics Gallery; and for another, see J.Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p.186 no.7:20

Bonhams. Fine Chinese Art, 10 Nov 2011, New Bond Street  www.bonhams.com