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1 avril 2012

A fine and exceptionally rare yellow-glazed bowl, Incised mark and period of Xuande (1426-1435)

A fine and exceptionally rare yellow-glazed bowl, Incised mark and period of Xuande

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Lot 15.  A fine and exceptionally rare yellow-glazed bowl, Incised mark and period of Xuande (1426-1435); 15.2 cm., 6 in. Estimate 10,000,000-15,000,000 HKD. Lot sold 26,980,000 HKD. Photo Sotheby's

exquisitely thrown in an inverted bell shape flaring at the rim and supported on a wide, slightly tapered foot, the interior and exterior covered in a light egg-yolk yellow glaze, pooling around the foot and transmuting to a deeper yellow, the thinly glazed base exposing the transparent glaze covering the entire body, incised with a six-character reign mark in regular script in a double ring

PROVENANCEChristie's Hong Kong, 25th October 1993, lot 732.
Eskenazi Ltd, London. 

EXHIBITEDChinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, The British Museum, London, 1994.
Evolution to Perfection. Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection/ Evolution vers la perfection. Céramiques de Chine de la Collection Meiyintang, Sporting d'Hiver, Monte Carlo, 1996, cat. no. 119.

LITERATUREChristie's 20 Years in Hong Kong, 1986-2006. Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Highlights, Hong Kong, 2006, p. 105.
Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 4, no. 1665.

NOTE: Monochrome yellow porcelain of the Xuande period is exceptionally rare. No other bowl of this form is recorded, and only three other yellow pieces of Xuande mark and period appear to have survived: two dishes preserved in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, and a third in a private collection (see below). While several other yellow-glazed dishes with underglaze-blue reign marks exist, they mostly represent white dishes of Xuande mark and period with later added yellow enamel. Although one fragmentary yellow bowl with an underglaze-blue mark has been recovered from the Xuande stratum of the Ming imperial kiln site at Jingdezhen, yellow-glazed pieces of the Xuande period generally seem to have been inscribed with incised reign marks.

Only two yellow Xuande pieces, both dishes with incised reign marks, are listed in the catalogue of the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Gugong ciqi lu [Record of porcelains from the Old Palace], Taipei, 1961-6, part II, vol. 1, p. 78; one of them is illustrated in Minji meihin zuroku [Illustrated catalogue of important Ming porcelains], Tokyo, 1977-8, vol. I, pl. 100; the other in Mingdai Xuande guanyao jinghua tezhan tulu / Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1998, cat. no. 162. A third dish, later in the Jingguantang collection, was sold in these rooms, 13th November 1990, lot 120

glazed fragments recovered from the Xuande stratum of the imperial kiln site include those of a wine ewer and cover without reign mark, and a U-shaped bowl with an underglaze-blue mark, see Jingdezhen chutu Ming Xuande guanyao ciqi / Xuande Imperial Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1998, cat. nos. 43-2 and 112-1, as well as bowls of the present shape with a copper-red glaze, cat. nos. 115-1 and 115-2. A monochrome white and a monochrome blue bowl of this form in the National Palace Museum, both with underglaze-blue reign marks, were included in the Museum's 1998 exhibition, op.cit., cat. nos. 57 and 58

This form and glaze colour were reproduced again later in the Ming dynasty, but examples are equally rare. A yellow bowl of this shape of Zhengde mark and period was sold at Christie's London, 3rd December 1973, lot 274.

Sotheby's. The Meiyintang Collection, Part III - An Important Selection of Imperial Chinese Porcelains. Hong Kong | 04 Apr 2012, 10:15 AM

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