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23 juillet 2017

An exceptionally rare yellow-ground blue and white 'Phoenix' dish, Jiajing mark and period (1522-1566)

An exceptionally rare yellow-ground blue and white 'Phoenix' dish, Jiajing six-character mark within double circles and of the period (1522-1566)

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Lot 3118. An exceptionally rare yellow-ground blue and white 'Phoenix' dish, Jiajing six-character mark within double circles and of the period (1522-1566), 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 1,500,000 - HKD 2,500,000Price realised HKD 2,320,000 © Christie's Images Ltd 2013

The shallow dish is finely painted in cobalt blue in the centre with an ascending phoenix with outspread wings and a tail comprised of five serrated tail feathers amidst a meandering lotus scroll, the well with a scrolling lingzhi, and the reverse side with a leafy scroll bearing alternating peony and chrysanthemum, all reserved on an egg-yolk yellow ground. The base is covered with a transparent glaze and inscribed with the reign mark. 

ProvenanceMrs. B.Z. Seligman, acquired in England before December 1950
Sold at Sotheby's London, 11 May 1954, lot 51
Bluett & Sons, London
Raymond F.A. Riesco Collection, no. 220u 

Literature: London Borough of Croydon, Riesco Collection of Chinese Ceramics Handlist, Croydon, 1987, p. 9, no. 67  

ExhibitedThe Arts Council of Great Britain and Oriental Ceramic Society, The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, London, 15 November - 14 December 1957, Catalogue, no. 199 

NoteThe current dish is exceedingly rare and is possibly unique as no other similar example appears to have been published to date. Yellow-ground blue and white wares first appeared in the early Ming period and were produced in larger quantities during the Chenghua period. However, the decorative repertoire on these ceramics are limited to mainly floral or stylised formal motifs, such as a dish decorated with a peony spray excavated from the Xuande stratum in Zhushan, illustrated in Xuande Imperial Porcelain excavated at Jingdezhen, Taipei, 1998, no. 85-3. 

During the Jiajing period new designs were incorporated into imperial blue and white on yellow ground wares, such as a group of large dishes, all measuring around 80 cm. in diameter, decorated with a frontal dragon amongst scrolling lotus. One such example is in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (II), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2000, p. 259, no. 234; another is in the Percival David Collection, now housed in the British Museum, illustrated by Margaret Medley in Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1978, no. 61; and one donated by J.M. Hu to the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Selected Ceramics from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. J.M. Hu, Shanghai, 1989, no. 23. However the current dish appears to be the only published example decorated with a single phoenix as well as of this small size, making it exceptionally unusual and appealing. 

Gigantic dish with dragons among lotus scrolls, Ming dynasty, Jiajing period, AD 1522–1566

Gigantic dish with dragons among lotus scrolls, Ming dynasty, Jiajing period, AD 1522–1566, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province. Porcelain decorated in underglaze cobalt blue and yellow glaze. Diameter: 79,4 cm. Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, PDF 731 © 2017 Trustees of the British Museum

Christie's. The R.F.A Riesco Collection of Important Chinese Ceramics, 27 November 2013, Hong Kong

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