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30 mars 2014

An extremely fine and rare yellow-ground and underglaze-blue dish, Mark and period of Hongzhi

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An extremely fine and rare yellow-ground and underglaze-blue dish, Mark and period of Hongzhi. Photo Sotheby(s

the large saucer-shaped dish with shallow rounded sides rising to a lipped and everted rim, all supported on a short tapering foot, the interior freely painted in soft shaded tones of underglaze cobalt-blue with a leafy branch bearing two large five-petalled gardenia blooms and two tightly closed buds, encircled around the well by fruiting branches of pomegranate, grape, persimmon and a ribbon-tied lotus bouquet, all between double-line borders, the underside with a continuous floral meander of large blooms borne on leafy budding stems, all reserved on a brilliant clear yellow enamel ground, the base glazed white and inscribed with a two column six-character mark within double-circles; 24.6 cm., 6 1/2 in. Estimate 7,000,000 — 9,000,000 HKD

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2nd November 1994, lot 48.

Note: The present piece is especially fine for its brilliant and striking combination of the blue and yellow colours and for the bold but perfectly arranged design of flowers and fruit. For Xuande and Chenghua prototypes in the British Museum, London, see Jessica Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, nos. 4:43 and 6:16.

Hongzhi dishes of this design can be found in important museum and private collections; for example see two in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Minji meihin zuroku, vol. II, Tokyo, 1977, pls. 72 and 73, together with their blue-and-white counterparts, pls. 70 and 71; and one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (II), Shanghai, 2000, pl. 231, together with a Chenghua example, pl. 230, and a Zhengde example, pl. 233. Compare also dish in the Shanghai Museum included in the exhibition Chugoku rekidai toji ten [Chinese ceramics through the ages], Seibu Art Museum, Tokyo, 1984, cat.no. 80.

From Western museum collections, compare a similar dish in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, vol. 2, Tokyo, 1982, col. pl. 16; one in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, op.cit., vol. 8, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 226, from the Kempe Collection; another illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 4, no. 1674, and sold in these rooms, 7th April 2011, lot 57; and a fourth example from the Sir Percival David Collection, now in the British Museum, London, included in Margaret Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares, London, 1966, cat. no. A740. The companion dish of the Percival David Foundation was sold in our London rooms, 15th October 1968, lot 108.

A similar dish from the T.Y. Chao collection was sold in these rooms, 31st October 1995, lot 387; and another from the Toguri Museum of Art, Tokyo, was sold in our London rooms, 9th June 2004, lot 22.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. Hong Kong | 08 Apr 2014 - www.sothebys.com

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