Lot 1859. A fine Ming imperial yellow-enamelled saucer-dish, Zhengde six-character mark within double-circles and of the period (1506-1521); 7 in. (17.8 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 700,000 - HKD 900,000. Price realised HKD 560,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2010

Finely potted with rounded sides rising to a flared rim from a tapered ring foot, covered inside and out with an attractive glaze of even, egg-yolk yellow tone, the base with a transparent glaze with a bluish tinge, box.

Provenance: The Robert Chang collection.

Exhibited: An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, Christie's London, 1993, Catalogue, p. 58, no. 22 

Note: Several Zhengde-marked yellow-glazed dishes of this size are known: one illustrated in Monochrome Porcelain - The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 41; one in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in the Catalogue, Ming and Ch'ing Monochromes, Section 6, no. 597; an example illustrated by John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, London, 1985, pl. 69; one in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham, illustrated by L. Legeza, The Malcolm MacDonald Collection, pl. XCV, no. 260; one from the collection of Samuel C. Davis, included in the Exhibition of Ming Porcelains, China Institute in America, 1970, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 37; and another in the O. C. S. Exhibition of Monochrome Porcelain, 1948, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 195.