Lot Essay
For similarly shaped jardinières of the fifteenth century, compare the Xuande mark and period blue and white square flanged example with cloud-shaped feet painted onto the solid base, excavated from the Imperial kiln site at Zhushan, Jingdezhen, and exhibited at the Hong Kong Urban Council, Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, 1989, Catalogue no.78, pp.238-9; and the Chenghua blue and white rectangular flanged jardinière with cloud-shaped feet painted and in low relief against a solid base, excavated from the Imperial kiln site at Zhushan, Jingdezhen, and exhibited at the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, Imperial Porcelain: Recent Discoveries of Jingdezhen Ware, 1995, Catalogue no.110, p.74.
For the moulded decoration on the present lot, compare the similar decoration on early fifteenth century blue and white porcelain: for example the Yongle straight-rimmed dish with tied bunch of lotus showing flowers, leaves and seed pods at the centre, excavated at Dongmentou, Zhushan, Jingdezhen, and exhibited at the Chang Foundation, Taipei, Imperial Hongwu and Yongle Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen, 1996, Catalogue no.40, pp.144-5; and the bird on branch design found on the dish with bracket-lobed rim in the Topkapi Saray Museum, illustrated by J. Ayers and R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul: II Yuan and Ming Porcelains, no.595 (TKS 15/1374), p.414; and a similar design on the baoyueping in the Percival David Foundation, exhibited in Imperial Taste: Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation, San Francisco, 1989, Catalogue no.30 (PDF A612), p.59.
For the moulded decoration on the present lot, compare the similar decoration on early fifteenth century blue and white porcelain: for example the Yongle straight-rimmed dish with tied bunch of lotus showing flowers, leaves and seed pods at the centre, excavated at Dongmentou, Zhushan, Jingdezhen, and exhibited at the Chang Foundation, Taipei, Imperial Hongwu and Yongle Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen, 1996, Catalogue no.40, pp.144-5; and the bird on branch design found on the dish with bracket-lobed rim in the Topkapi Saray Museum, illustrated by J. Ayers and R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul: II Yuan and Ming Porcelains, no.595 (TKS 15/1374), p.414; and a similar design on the baoyueping in the Percival David Foundation, exhibited in Imperial Taste: Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation, San Francisco, 1989, Catalogue no.30 (PDF A612), p.59.