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20 septembre 2013

A fine yellow-glazed dish, Mark and period of Zhengde

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A fine yellow-glazed dish, Mark and period of Zhengde. Photo: Sotheby's.

with shallow rounded sides rising from a short tapered foot to a slightly everted rim, applied overall with an even yellow glaze of rich egg-yolk tone, save for the base left white and inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark within a double ring; 17.7 cm., 7 in. Estimation 300,000 — 400,000 HKD (30,180 - 40,239 EUY=

Provenance: Collection of Lady William Clayton.
Christie's London, 16th December 1996, lot 118.
Christie's New York, 19th March 2008, lot 590.

Dishes of this type are held in important museums and collections around the world; see one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 41; another from the Sir Percival David collection and now in the British Museum, London, published in Margaret Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Ch’ing Monochrome in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1973, pl. 597; and a third from the Koger collection, included in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics. The Koger Collection, London, 1985, pl. 69. See also a closely related dish from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Barker, sold in our London rooms, 11th June 1996, lot 32; and another from the collections of B. and V. Lake and Feihong Ge, included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition, Monochrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties, London, 1948, cat. no. 175, and sold twice at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27th April 1997, lot 64, and again, 26th April 2004, lot 1029. 

Sotheby's. Important Ming Porcelain from a Private Collection. Hong Kong | 08 oct. 2013http://www.sothebys.com

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