A pair of Imperial yellow-glazed dishes, Zhengde six-character marks of of the period. Photo Bonhams

Each with a short hollowed circular footrim, the curved body rising to a flaring rim at the tip, plainly enamelled in a rich egg-yolk yellow tone all over, the base with a six-character mark. Each: 17.6cm diam. (2). Estimate US$ 190,000 - 320,000

Notes: In the Ming dynasty, yellow-glazed porcelains were usually not allowed to be produced other than at the Imperial kilns at Jingdezhen, among which pieces produced during the Hongzhi and Zhengde reigns were of the finest quality in terms of glazing and colour. See an identical Zhengde reign-marked yellow-glazed dish from the Qing court collection, preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of the Treasures of the Palace Museum. Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, p.46, pl.41; and another yellow dish illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol.IV, London, 2010, pl.1676. For two other dishes from the collection of the British Museum, see Jessica Harrison-Hall, Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p.205, pls.8:27 and 8:28.

Bonhams. 26 May 2013. Hong Kong. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art