Lot 2805. Property from the Kwong Yee Che Tong Collection. A blue and white 'floral scroll' barbed-rim dish, Yongle period (1403-1425); 38.4 cm across, Japanese wood box. Price realised HKD 2,898,000 (Estimate HKD 1,800,000 – HKD 2,500,000) © Christie's Images Ltd 2024

Provenance: Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 May 2007, lot 1453.

Exhibited: On loan to the Seattle Art Museum, 2009-2017.

Note: A number of dishes of this pattern have been published. Compare a very similar foliate-rim dish illustrated by J. A. Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington, 1956, pl. 35, nos. 29.101, 29.106, and 29.109; one illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, 1994, no. 662; one from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Blue and White Ware of The Ming Dynasty, Book I, Hong Kong, 1963, pls. 22 and 22a; and the dish formerly from the collection of Mrs Walter Sedgwick, illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 116, fig. 3:35.

Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 30 May 2024