Lot 105. A yellow-glazed dish, Zhengde mark and period(1506-1521); 22.5cm., 8 7/8 in. Estimate 50,000 - 70,000 GBP. Lot sold 56,250 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's 2013

 the rounded sides supported on a tapered foot, covered overall with a pale yellow glaze, the base left white and inscribed with a six-character mark within a double-circle

PROVENANCE: A Japanese Private Collection.

EXHIBITED: Ming Porcelain, Marchant, London, 2009, cat. no. 12. 

NOTE: This dish is notable for its large size and luminous yellow glaze. A closely related example was included in the exhibition Handbook of the Mr and Mrs John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, The Asia Society, New York, 1979, p. 79 (bottom right); another was sold twice in our Hong Kong rooms, 24th November 1981, lot 136, and 24th November 1987, lot 42; and a third was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29th May 2007, lot 1484. Dishes of slightly smaller size include one illustrated in Chinese Porcelain. The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 136; one from the Sir Percival David collection and now in the British Museum, published in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Qing Monochrome Wares, London, 1989, pl. 597; and another from the Hall Family collection, sold twice in our Hong Kong rooms, 16th May 1977, lot 65, and again, 2ndMay 2000, lot 504..

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. London, 15 mai 2013