A FINE AND RARE EARLY MING WHITE-GLAZED SAUCER-DISH

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A FINE AND RARE EARLY MING WHITE-GLAZED SAUCER-DISH
ENCIRCLED XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

With shallow rounded sides rising from a tall foot to a flaring rim, all under an even unctuous white glaze
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Bluett, London.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Clarke Collection, no. 829.
An Important Private Collection, sold in Hong Kong, 17 May 1988, lot 33 Frederic Mueller Collection, sold in our New York Rooms, 1 June 1990, lot 171.

Lot Essay

This waxy white glaze of these dishes is known to the Chinese as 'sweet white'.

A slightly smaller example was included in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Special Exhibition of Hsuan-te Wares, 1980, Catalogue, no. 120. Another with an incised mark was sold in Hong Kong, 21 May 1979, lot 74, from the Luff Collection.

An example with a Zhengde six-character mark from the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, is illustrated in the Inaugural Exhibition Catalogue, vol. I, p. 193, no. 147.

(US$7,000-9,000)

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