Lot 139
139
Various Properties
A MING BLUE AND YELLOW DISH painted in underglaze-blue with a central hibiscus branch of two flowers and a bud within a double circle, below four loose sprays at the well comprising a vine branch with six grapes, a ribboned lotus flower, a pomegranate branch with two fruits and a persimmon branch with two fruits, the exterior with six peony heads on a floral meander (rim crack, chip),

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A MING BLUE AND YELLOW DISH painted in underglaze-blue with a central hibiscus branch of two flowers and a bud within a double circle, below four loose sprays at the well comprising a vine branch with six grapes, a ribboned lotus flower, a pomegranate branch with two fruits and a persimmon branch with two fruits, the exterior with six peony heads on a floral meander (rim crack, chip),

encircled Zhengde mark and of the period
20cm. diam.

Lot Essay

A number of these 'blue and yellow' dishes, from several Ming reigns, are in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan: one is illustrated in the Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Ch'eng Hua Porcelain, 1967, no.139; another is illustrated in the Catalogue, Blue and White Wares of the Ming Dynasty, Book IV, pl. 11; and two are included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Dynasty Porcelain, pls. 72 and 73. Another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Vol II. col. pl. 16, and by Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, pl. 83. Others are illustrated in the Percival David Foundation, Catalogue, Section 5, pl. III, no. 26.

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