Lot 875. Two blue and white small saucer dishes, Lê dynasty, 15th-16th century; 6 and 4 3/8in (15 and 11cm) diameter. Estimate US$ 800 - 1,200 (€680 - 1,000). Sold for US$ 375 (€316). Photo: Bonhams.  

The larger of simple circular form with a short foot supporting a curving well centered with a lotus and trilliam roundel and a classic tendril scroll band at the rim reversed by a wider flower and leaf band on the upper exterior walls, the glaze stopping along the foot and partially covering the recessed base; the smaller dish molded with a barbed rim and painted with a bird on a flowering branch framed by a band of radiating lines along the cavetto, the reverse painted with jeweled lappets and the deeply recessed base left unglazed with traces of iron red adhering.   

Published: James H. Brow and Anh Hoang Brow, 'Vietnamese Ceramics: A Ten Thousand Year Continuum,' Arts of Asia, March-April 2004, p. 91, no. 28. 

Note: For a drawing of a small dish excavated from the kiln site, with barbed rim and band of radiating lines along the cavetto similar to the second saucer dish in this lot, see Tang Ba Huanh (editor), Gom Chu Dao [Chu Dao Ceramics], 1999, p. 059, third dish in the right column.

Bonhams. FINE ASIAN WORKS OF ART, 18 Dec 2017, 11:00 PST, SAN FRANCISCO