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26 février 2014

A blue and white barbed rim 'floral scroll' dish, Ming Dynasty, Yongle Period

17-1 - Plat émail de Pékin ovale, fond bleu – L 0,47 l 0,40 – certificat de non classement

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A blue and white barbed rim 'floral scroll' dish, Ming Dynasty, Yongle Period. Photo Sotheby's

the interior freely painted with composite floral scroll in the medallion with aster, pink, mallow, chrysanthemum and lotus blooms around a central camellia, the lobed well with twelve single flower heads each encircled by its leafy stem, the flaring foliate rim with a band of breaking waves, the exterior sides painted with twelve further floral sprays, the base unglazed. Diameter 13 1/4 in., 33.7 cm. Estimation 300,000 — 400,000 USD

Provenance: Old Japanese Collection, by repute.

The present dish is an example of the technical developments achieved by the early Ming dynasty. Yongle porcelains are characterized by their particularly deep blue cobalt, which fired to a dark deep-blue in some parts and pale blue in others. This silvery-black and crystal-like separation of colors is known as the 'heaped and piled' effect, and the intensity of tones was highlighted by the finely potted white body of the porcelain clay.

One of the decorative innovations of early fifteenth-century wares was the use of separate floral sprays or bunches of flowers in the cavetto instead of the continuous scroll. The heavy wreath of lotus or peony found on 14th century dishes gave way to more varied series of formalized motifs. Twelve flower sprays consisting of two sets were commonly repeated in order so that each flower was diametrically opposite its pair. With each flower spray encircled by a circular stem with leaves, the present dish is characteristic of the delicate variety that occurred within Yongle design schemes.

A similar dish in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, is illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. II, London, 1986, pl. 601; another in the Percival David Foundation is published in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, 1982, vol. 6, no. 76; one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, was included in the Special Exhibition of Early Ming Porcelains, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1982, cat. no. 38, a fourth is published in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 753; other dishes of this design include two in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated in Jan Wirgin, Chinese Ceramics from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Bequest, Stockholm, 1978, pl. 27, no. 25, and one in the Swedish Royal Collection, published in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, vol. 8, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 216. An example from the Mottahedeh collection, illustrated in Michael Howard and John Ayers, China for the West. Chinese Porcelain and Other Decorative Arts for Export, vol. 1, New York, 1978, p. 12, was sold in our New York rooms, 20th March 1976, lot 113, and again, 20th September 2000, lot 105. Another comparable example was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 8th April 2013, lot 3018.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. New York | 18 Mar 2014, 10:30 AM - www.sothebys.com

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