Une assiette blanche à décor incisé - dynastie Ming, époque Yongle (1403-1435)

A white-glazed barbed dish, Ming dynasty, Yongle period.

chantournée, le rebord plat et le cavetto flûté, l'intérieur finement incisé à décor anhua se découvrant en transparence, le médaillon central de raisins en grappes, le cavetto d'une variété de fruits et fleurs, et le marli de rinceaux de lingzhi, recouverte d'une glaçure "douce blanche" tianbai, la base non émaillée. diam. 20cm, 7 7/8 in.  -Estimé: 50,000—70,000 EUR

EXHIBITED: The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, The Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1958, cat. no. 88.

LITERATURE AND REFERENCES: Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 671.

Chinese Ceramic Treasures, a Selection from the Ulricehamn East Asian Museum, Including The Carl Kempe Collection. The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 2002, no. 862, p. 266.

CATALOGUE NOTE: Dishes of this form and glaze, similarly incised with grapes can be found in the Asia Society, New York, from the John D. Rockefeller 3^rd collection, illustrated in Denise Patry Leidy, Treasures of Asian Art, New York, 1994, pl. 168; and in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, published in Jan Wirgin, Chinese Ceramics from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Bequest, Stockholm, 1978, pl. 34. Compare also a dish sold at Christie's London, 13^th October 1969, lot 101.

Two dishes of this form, the centre incised with a gnarled rose branch bearing full blooms and furled leaves, were sold in our rooms, one in London, 8^th December 1992, lot 236, from the collection of Sir David Home; the other in Hong Kong, 1^st November 1999, lot 326.

A fragmentary white dish of this form but without incised decoration, excavated from the early Yongle stratum of the Ming imperial kiln site, was included in the exhibition Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1989, cat. no. 23. The exquisite quality of this kind of porcelain with a 'sweet-white' (tianbai) glaze was highly valued not only at the Ming court but still in the Qing dynasty, when at the end of the Kangxi reign a dish of this type was transferred to the imperial palace workshops to be enamelled. This polychrome painted dish, now preserved in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, was included together with a plain white piece with incised camellia design in the museum's Special Exhibition of Ch'ing Dynasty Enamelled Porcelains of the Imperial Ateliers, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1992, cat. nos. 1 and 2.

Sotheby's Paris. From Neolithic to Qing, Chinese Ceramics from Two Private Collections from two European collections. 12 Juin 2008