A Yellow-Glazed Dish, Mark and period of Hongzhi. Photo: Sotheby's.

with shallow rounded sides supported on a tapered foot, applied overall with an attractive yellow glaze of pale even tone, save for the base left white and inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark within a double ring; 21.6 cm., 8 1/2  in. Estimation 200,000 — 300,000 HKD (20,120 - 30,180 EUR) 

Provenance: Christie's Paris, 15th June 2005, lot 204.

A closely related dish from the Qing Court collection and still in Beijing is illustrated inThe Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 3; another in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is published inMinji meihin zuroku, vol. 2, Tokyo, 1977, pl. 78; one from the H.M. Knight collection was sold in our London rooms, 12th May 1970, lot 51, and again at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3rd December 2008, lot 2541; and a pair of dishes from the Hall Family collection was sold in these rooms, 2nd May 2000, lot 503. One of the very rare examples of imperial Chinese dishes of this type to have reached the Near or Middle East is illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, London, 1986, vol. 2, pl. 774, and again in colour, p. 447. 

Sotheby's. Important Ming Porcelain from a Private Collection. Hong Kong | 08 oct. 2013. http://www.sothebys.com